apr 27, 1976 - 8. Apple is Founded
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In 1976 Apple was co-founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Apple started out as a small hobbyist group that built pre-assembled computers for a store knows as the Byte Shop. As the group built more and more computers the designs and powers of the computers they built rapidly improved. In 1997 Apple was given a large sum of money by Mike Markkula, this helped to found the Apple Company and later that year Apple launched the Apple II, a revolutionary computer for its time. Apple was the first company to use a GUI interface. In 1984 Apple expanded is popularity with the launch of the Apple Macintosh, one of the most user friendly computer of the time. Today Apple is one of the computer leaders in the world and its innovation is still seen in many of its newer products like the iPod, the iPhone, and the
iPad.
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