Friends And Family Of Steve Jobs Launched An Archive To Celebrate His Life

The Steve Jobs Archive is an organization that celebrates the pioneering technology figure that has been Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. The archive is accessible at stevejobsarchive.com.

The site is currently working. The email Jobs sent to himself about his admiration for people appears at the top. A few important comments from Jobs can be found by scrolling down, including a few from his renowned Stanford commencement speech from 2005. There is a brief "About Us" summary for the archive at the conclusion. Along the way, audio and video clips of Jobs are interspersed.

“With respect for the past and excitement for the future, the Steve Jobs Archive offers people the tools and opportunities to make their own contribution,”  according to the website.  “We are building programs, fellowships, collections, and partnerships that reflect Steve’s values and carry his sense of possibility forward.”  A news announcement also adds that the collection would “act as a storehouse of historical materials connected to Steve, some of which have never before been made public.” In the upcoming months, there will be additional announcements about new initiatives and offerings.

At Vox Media's Code conference on Wednesday, the widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, gave a speech about the archive.  “While we do have some artifacts and some actual real material, the archive is much more about ideas,”

The archive, according to Powell Jobs, is  “rooted in Steve’s long held notion that once you understand that, outside of the natural world, everything in the built environment and all the systems that govern our life on the planet were built and designed by other humans. Once you have that insight, you understand that you as a human can change it, can prod it, can perhaps, interrogate it and stretch it. In that way, human progress happens.”