{"id":1000670,"date":"2026-04-02T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000670"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:23:45","slug":"apples-50-year-odyssey-has-redefined-technology-pop-culture-and-comeback-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/apples-50-year-odyssey-has-redefined-technology-pop-culture-and-comeback-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools&#8217; Day 50 years ago and then &#8211; no joke &#8211; pulled it off. <\/p>\n<p>The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976, when a then-shaggy Steve Jobs and his gadget-tinkering friend Steve Wozniak signed a two-page partnership document that created Apple Computer Co. <\/p>\n<p>Jobs, a 21-year-old college dropout, and Wozniak, a 25-year-old Hewlett-Packard employee, each received a 45 per cent stake in Apple, with the remaining 10 per cent going to their 41-year-old adviser, Ron Wayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools&#8217; Day 50 years ago and then &#8211; no joke &#8211; pulled it off. The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976, when a then-shaggy Steve Jobs and his gadget-tinkering friend Steve Wozniak signed a two-page partnership document that created Apple Computer Co. Jobs, a 21-year-old college dropout, and Wozniak, a 25-year-old Hewlett-Packard employee, each received a 45 per cent stake in Apple, with the remaining 10 per cent going to their 41-year-old adviser, Ron Wayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}