| beard o' jobs v. 0.4b |
| january-11-2005 | Steve Jobs is shaven but stubbly as he introduces the new iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini (BYODKM), iWork, and other updates at the 2005 Macworld Expo. AP photo. |
| january-07-2004 | Steve Jobs is bearded as he introduces the new iPod Mini, GarageBand, and XServe G5 among other updates at the 2004 Macworld Expo. AP photo. |
| april-28-2003 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven (though looking a little grizzly) as he introduces the iTunes Jukebox music service and new iPods. His standard blue jeans had rolled cuffs, which he claims is because he accidentally bought the wrong size. AP photo. |
| january-07-2003 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces the new 12-inch and 17-inch alumninum PowerBooks (and iLife, Safari, Keynote, and Final Cut Express) at the San Francisco MacWorld keynote. |
| january-07-2002 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces the new flat-panel iMac at the San Francisco MacWorld keynote. |
| october-23-2001 | Steve Jobs has a stubbly beard (and a noticeably receding hairline) as he introduces the iPod in Cupertino, California. (see Reuters photo) |
| april-30-2001 | Steve Jobs has started growing back the beard! After a one-and-a-half year hiatus, the beard is reemerging on the scene, stubbly and mostly white, as he is featured in a Fortune article. Maybe he recognized disrupting the beard growth cycle was destroying Apple's karma. (see Fortune article.) |
| february-21-2001 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces GeForce3 and the new iMacs, with CD-RW drives and dots and flowers at the Tokyo MacWorld Expo 2001 keynote. He's wearing a suit and tie. Maybe it's time to move over to covering the State of the Wardrobe o' Jobs (SWOJ) now that he always shaves. Yep, he's definitely put on the pounds. (see MacNN coverage.) |
| january-09-2001 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces new hardware, including the Titanium G4 Powerbook, at the San Francisco MacWorld Expo 2001 keynote. Jobs looks like he's put on a few pounds lately. He's not getting any younger. |
| july-19-2000 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces new hardware, including the G4 Cube, at the New York MacWorld Expo 2000 keynote. |
| january-5-2000 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces OS X (with Aqua) and Apple's new Internet strategy at the San Francisco MacWorld Expo 2000 keynote. (see ZDTV coverage.) |
| october-5-1999 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he introduces the new iMac and OS 9 (see MacWorld pictures). |
| august-31-1999 | Steve Jobs is bearded as he introduces the Macintosh G4 at Seybold Seminars San Francisco (see ZDTV coverage). |
| july-21-1999 | Steve Jobs is bearded at the New York MacWorld Expo 1999 keynote. |
| may-10-1999 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven as he presents the WWDC keynote. |
| march-16-1999 | Steve Jobs is "sporting a graying beard" as he unveils Mac OS X Server (see TIMEdigital article). |
| january-01-1998 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven at the SF Macworld Expo '99 keynote. |
| december-09-1998 | Steve Jobs is clean-shaven at the CAUSE98 keynote (see Educause). |
| june-1976 | Steve Jobs has a neatly trimmed beard as he displays the Apple I at the PC '76 computer show in Atlantic City. |
1/8/2000: v0.4b. Added version history to source.html. Received the February 2000 issue of MacAddict, which carries a screenshot of the S.B.O.J. on their "Shutdown" page.
10/12/1999: Contacted MacAddict about S.B.O.J. after they postulated (mistakenly) about the reasons for Jobs's shaving habits in their October issue.
12/10/1998: v0.3b. Added about.html.
12/9/1998 v0.2b. Added source.html.
12/9/1998 v0.1b. Conceived of S.B.O.J. and built first beta. Announced it to #mosr.
