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iPod, iPhone, iPad and Mac fans are iSad because the world has lost an extraordinarily talented and extraordinarily bold innovator –one of the very few in our generation. The 56 year old inventor and entrepreneur Steve Jobs died on Wednesday due to a rare kind of pancreatic cancer. Diagnosed in 2004, Jobs continued on with his work in the company he co-founded.

The former CEO of the technology giant battled the disease for 7 years. He was surrounded by family upon his passing on Wednesday, October 5, 2011.

US President Obama said, the world “lost a visionary” and indeed it did because Jobs is definitely one of the greatest American innovators in modern times.

It is not surprising that Jobs’ death caused a lot of sadness in all corners of the globe. Although this is a post-Diana era and hero-worship can be a little over the top, the mourning is justifiable because the world just lost someone who was bold enough to make an idea into reality.

The innovations of Steve Jobs may be considered as “useless” to some but to many, these gadgets have changed lives especially when it comes to storage and downloading information right on the palm of one’s hands.

Days after his death, more and more people are now researching about Jobs i.e. who he was, what he was like and what his journey was like. One common curiosity however is the fact that Jobs is adopted. His biological father, a Syrian national, met Jobs’ mother during their university days. At the time however, his father was not allowed to marry Jobs’ biological mother because her father did not allow it. His biological parents did not really want to give him up but by the time that they were already able to marry, they could not get their son anymore since the adoption papers have already been processed. Steve Jobs said once in an interview however that his adoptive parents are his true parents. Jobs never met his real father and mother.