Back in 1984, I was in the fourth grade. We were all excited because we had just had a computer lab set up in our elementary school. And this 
was the first year we could use it. The room was full of excited 9 and 10 year olds ohhhing and ahhing over these amazing machines. We didn’t know we were learning, we were playing games. Making a message scroll repeatedly across the screen, playing math games. The computers, were Apple IIc. We thought we were seeing science fiction come to life.
Now, after elementary school, I never had another computer experience until 2000 when I got my first. But I still remember those Apple IIc computers. I didn’t even buy an Apple product until a few years ago when we all got iPods. And up until this year, that was it. Then I finally moved from Droid to iPhone, and got myself a Wi-Fi iPad 2, and my school life has never been easier. But that’s not what made Steve Jobs a legend.
What he did, putting computers in the hands of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of school students, back in 1984, and then in peoples homes with the Macintosh that followed…that’s what stands out to me. He didn’t raise the bar, he placed it. And as of yet, noone has really caught up.
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