Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The city of Cupertino will fly its Civic Center flag at half-staff, while some fans have declared the 5th of October Black Turtleneck Day.
We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting tributes and anecdotes about Jobs from our coverage over the past year, sprinkled with Apple events and developments.
What’s your favorite Steve Jobs tribute or memory? Let us know in the comments below.
October
Celebrating the life of Steve Jobs in photos, videos, quotes and tweets
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These photos will make you smile: Steve Jobs testing Photobooth
Sony Pictures to make Steve Jobs biography into a movie
Steve Jobs fans leave tributes at SF Apple store
Fortune and TIME to release commemorative issues on Steve Jobs
October 16th will be Steve Jobs Day in California
This could be the most unique Steve Jobs tribute yet
Beautiful: Public #thankyousteve Tweets visualised into a giant Steve Jobs poster
Fans design Steve Jobs portrait out of 4,001 Post-it Notes at Apple Store
Apple receives more than 1 million Steve Jobs tributes, creates new ‘Remembering Steve’ page
Steve Jobs working on Apple’s next product day before his death
Apple pays tribute to Steve Jobs with memorial at 1 Infinite Loop
City of Cupertino posts Steve Jobs tribute video developed by city staff
Steve Jobs helped Google’s Page, Facebook’s Zuckerberg to “repay” Silicon Valley
Steve Jobs movie could be written by the Social Network’s Aaron Sorkin
Walter Isaacson discusses Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ [Video]
TNW Review: Two lessons from the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
November
Watch Steve Jobs discuss Apple, technology and his life in this 1995 interview
Steve Jobs biography sells 379,000 copies in the U.S. during its first week
Zuckerberg: Steve Jobs and I connected over our mission to build more than a company
Watch a sample of the lost Steve Jobs interview coming to theaters
Siri co-founder Dag Kittaus: When Steve Jobs phoned, I knew we had made it big.
Steve Jobs wanted to build a wireless carrier, but gave up
The U.S. Patent Office honors Steve Jobs with a beautiful exhibit
Watch Steve Jobs brainstorm with the NeXT team in this fascinating video
Apple names Levinson Chairman and Iger to the Board, Both had History with Steve Jobs
Must watch: 46 seconds of Steve Jobs on changing the world
Steve Jobs made $1 per year, took no bonuses…but Apple did buy him a $90 MM jet
December
You have to watch this: Apple’s 1984 Ghostbusters parody [Video]
Computer History Museum launches unique online Steve Jobs exhibit
Find Apple keynotes on Stevenote.tv, a tribute to Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs biography hits top spot on Amazon’s 2011 best-seller chart
Watch this 60-minute “Billion Dollar Hippy” Steve Jobs documentary from the BBC right now
Steve Jobs on video games as the future of learning
Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life documentary now available on pay-per-view
January
Apple rejects Steve Jobs tribute calendar app, developers turn to Cydia
Apple names Dixons CEO John Browett as senior vice president of Retail
How Apple remembers Steve Jobs at its Cupertino campus
Steve Jobs kept a letter written to him by Bill Gates by his bedside
Steve Jobs on charity: Encourage shareholder donations by increasing Apple’s value
President Obama has invited Steve Jobs’ wife Laurene to State of the Union address
This Virgin America jet has a name inspired by Steve Jobs
An inside look at the entrepreneurs who’ve transformed our world
Former Apple CEO Sculley: ‘When I left Apple it had $2bn of cash’, it now has $82bn
Steve Jobs on starting Apple “We had nothing to lose, and we had everything to gain”
This Steve Jobs action figure is so realistic, it’s actually kind of freaky
February
Apple’s strange PR move: No on-stage debut for OS X Mountain Lion
How does Steve Jobs’ vision for textbooks match up with Apple’s reality?
Check out this insanely extensive and inspiring archive of Steve Jobs videos
Insanely Simple: A new book about Apple and Steve Jobs that should be better than the bio
A passionate Tim Cook demonstrates why he’s the right product man for Apple
The FBI’s investigation of Steve Jobs has finally cracked open
Forgotten Apple founder takes to Facebook to explain his decision to quit after 12 days
March
New Apple TV UI uses designs “tossed out 5 years ago” by Steve Jobs, says former Apple TV engineer
A complete roundup of reviews of Apple’s new iPad from across the Internet
As Apple rediscovers its old logo, here’s a colorful stop-motion tribute to the brand
Of all the interviews about Steve Jobs, it was Eric Schmidt’s that was perhaps most moving
What CBS CEO Les Moonves told Steve Jobs when he declined an Apple subscription deal last year
Isaacson left details of the ‘next Apple TV’ out of Steve Jobs biography
Forgotten Apple founder takes to Facebook to explain his decision to quit after 12 days
April
Apple SEC filing highlights official appointment of John Browett as new SVP of Retail
“Bartending” is a tasty morsel of life behind an Apple Store Genius Bar
Hong Kong student behind Steve Jobs-Apple logo tribute lands Coca Cola ad project
It’s official: There is a Steve Jobs Avenue in Brazil
Read an excerpt of Insanely Simple, a great new book about Steve Jobs and Apple by Ken Segall
Video: Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson talks at length about Apple’s iconic co-founder
Ashton Kutcher set to play Steve Jobs in upcoming biopic
May
Aaron Sorkin: Writing a movie about Steve Jobs is like writing about The Beatles
The media overplays Steve Jobs’ angry side, says Ken Segall, the man who put the ‘i’ in iMac
The interesting secret stories behind 10 Apple icons
Nearly 3M pageviews later: The exclusive story behind the inspirational SteveTold.Us
Apple’s VP of Europe Pascal Cagni quits after 12 year tenure
Arise, Sir Jony Ive: Apple’s design guru collects his Knighthood
Jony Ive: What Apple is working on now is the ‘most important’ work it’s done
Steve Jobs, Sex And The City and the tale of the upside down Apple logo
Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs biopic, jOBS, to begin filming in original Apple garage
Your moment of Apple zen: Remember the things that Steve told us
The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities
Apple’s next iPhone will feature a new design worked on by Steve Jobs, and a bigger screen
Sony hires Woz as advisor to Steve Jobs film, which Sorkin says won’t be a ‘straight ahead biopic’
Zuckerberg’s girlfriend and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant inspired Facebook’s new organ donor feature
June
Must watch: A collection of over 250 videos about Steve Jobs presented in biographical order
Today’s WWDC keynote proved one thing: Post-Jobs Apple is doing just fine
A photo tour of Apple’s new slimmer, lighter MacBook Pro
Everything that Apple announced today at WWDC
When Steve Jobs called this key Apple manager a ‘fuckchop’, he put it on his business cards
July
Calling all rich nerds: Pixar Image computer up for auction on eBay for just $25k
TNW Review: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Steve Jobs – The Lost Interview now available on iTunes in the US
Apple shutters MobileMe for good, offers data downloads or iCloud migration for a limited time
August
Apple promotes Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio to SVP, says Bob Mansfield to stay on
Samsung ordered to pay $1,049,343,540 in Apple patent lawsuit defeat
Rare Steve Jobs speech from 1983 predicts iPhone, Google StreetView and better design for computers
Steve Jobs’ California home raided, thief steals $60,000 worth of valuables and computers
The Apple patent Steve Jobs fought hard to protect, and his connection to its inventor
Internal email shows Apple’s Eddy Cue wanted 7″ iPad in January of 2011
Apple’s iPhone Prototypes and the Power of ‘No’
September
Watch: Steve Jobs demos podcasts in 2005, with an embarrassing twist
Apple wins prestigious UK design awards, flies entire design team to London to pick them up
October
The story of a lost time capsule containing Steve Jobs’ Lisa mouse
Rare full recording of 1983 Steve Jobs speech reveals Apple had been working on iPad for 27 years
Steve Jobs-designed Apple factory, the birthplace of the Macintosh, considered for historic status
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