Steve Jobs And Apple - Looking Back At The Creation Of An Empire

When Steve Jobs, together with Steve Wozniak, created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, he could have had no idea of the monster he was about to unleash on the world. The Apple I may have been a crude design, but it was different to anything else on the market, and set the template for all Apple products that would follow.

A divisive figure, it is well known that the fortunes of Apple dropped dramatically when Jobs left the company in 1985; and it is also common knowledge that he almost single-handedly turned its fortunes around when he returned in 1998. Since then, we've had the iBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, all the while changing the very way we look at - and use - computers.

This is a timeline of Job's most important innovations from his two spells at Apple, from the humble wooden-box-encased Apple I, right through the to iPad, a true piece of Mac genius, for no one knew what do with it when it was released, and now it is a product we simply can't do without.

Love him or hate him, Steve Jobs did change the world. Here we look at how he did it...