Happy Birthdays 2007: Steve Jobs and MacRumors

Saturday February 24, 2007 12:14 pm PST by Arnold Kim

Today marks the Steve Jobs' 52nd birthday and MacRumors.com's 7th birthday.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 and later co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, but later returned in 1997 after Apple bought NeXT (also founded by Jobs). Steve Jobs is Apple's current CEO.

MacRumors.com began on February 24, 2000 as a site to consolidate interesting rumors and news surrounding Apple and has grown to one of the largest Mac communities on the internet.

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