We’ve noted a lot of important birthdays: March 24th (OS X); April 1st (Apple Inc.); April 28th (yours truly…and the iTunes Store. Fine.). But none—with the exception of perhaps the last—can really hold a candle to today. February 24th.
Because, 52 years ago today, Steven Paul Jobs first came into this world. Sure, he wouldn’t found Apple until in his twenties; wouldn’t meet Steve Wozniak until his high school years; wouldn’t even be bitten by the radioactive mongoose that would grant him his fabled reality distortion field until his journeys through India in the ’70s.
But still, today is important. A world without Jobs would be a world without Apple, a world in which we’d all potentially still be using command-line OSes, where computers would be the province of a merely a few, and where—most importantly—I would probably not have this job.
So raise a glass of the beverage of your choice to the Steve today.