Before he was Steve Jobs, the man behind technology. A cover story on the Apple man entitled ‘Before He Was an Icon: My Encounters with Steve Jobs.’

Steve was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He graduated from Cupertino Junior High School. After graduation he joined Reed College in Portland and used to spend nights at the floors of friends’ room. He exchanged coke bottles for food money then.

1977, Steve brings out Apple II in Cupertino Calif. Apple. Apple II is an 8-bit home computer that became a highly prosperous mass-produced micro-computer product.

Steve remembering his early days at Apple. In the picture, Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Wozniak had once said how Jobs used to take away all the limelight. He further agreed that Steve had the intention of making the consumer friendly technology from the very first day they started Apple but it was hard to get there. Eventually computers grew up to where they could do… normal consumer appliance things.

1984, the creator of great computers. Steve with his creations.

1991, Steve Jobs beside his NeXT station color computer at NeXT facility in Redwood City.

1992, Apple CEO at a press conference at the first international NEXTWORLD Expo in San Francisco.

Jobs with (left) Ed Catmull from Disney and with (right) John Lasseter from Pixar. He saw what Pixar was before they could. The computer animation film studio has produced some greatest hits of all time; Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo, Cars and so on.

Steve with wife Laurene Powell Jobs.

Lisa Brennan Jobs, Steve’s eldest daughter out of wedlock. She was first denied fathering by Steve Jobs but was later taken up. She is now a young beautiful woman aged 33. An American journalist by profession she has 3 siblings from her father Steve.

His products were indeed a reflection of what he was! With MacBook Air, the super thin and light notebook.

With iPhone 3G.

Steve shows off the white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference.

2011, estranged Steve Jobs holding the iPad 2. This was the time when world had written off his presence at the launch event. However his was capped as the “most remarkable comeback in modern business history.” He had become a worldwide threat to his IT competitors in the likes of Microsoft. iPad had become a bestseller and was a revolution in the world of touch screen tablet computers. Obama had said; “We celebrate somebody like Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products.”

At the launch of iPod he offered a bit of advice to his consumers, “If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.”

His illness had taken over him such that he sidelined for half a year, he was severely emaciated and eventually underwent a liver transplant. However, his never say die spirit will always be his true portrayal.

When Steve Jobs resigned as the CEO of Apple, replaced by Tim Cook he had addressed his employees through a letter. Excerpts, “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it.”

Frail Steve was seen on Friday, being helped by a friend in Palo Alto. His biological father Abdulfattah John Jandali expressed regret over giving him up for adoption and said he wanted to meet him to put together some broken ends. “Now I just live in hope that, before it’s too late, he will reach out to me.”

People are leaving messages and flowers in tribute at Apple HQ.

This famous picture of him will grace the upcoming biography of Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson due out next month.