Without Steve Jobs, we might not have had the home computer. The graphical user interface and the now ubiquitous mouse might have remained in a lab at Xerox PARC. Pixar might have come to nothing, and we might still be waiting for high quality 3D special effects and animated films. NeXT computer might never have existed, and with it Objective-C (and possibly Java too), never mind the Cocoa frameworks and modern Mac OS X. We might not have had Truetype fonts, or Unicode, the tablet computer (the first, of course, being the Newton, though the iPad is the one everyone will remember) or the iPod. It might not have been possible to buy music, movies or TV shows easily online. And let's not forget the impact the iPhone has had and continues to have on the mobile telephony market. The influence that Steve has had on our daily lives, both directly and indirectly, is hard to overstate.

Today is a sad day, for we have lost a great man.

Here's to Steve.