Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal-computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

His family, in a statement released by Apple, said Mr. Jobs “died peacefully today surrounded by his family.”

Steve Jobs was the biological son of Joanne Schieble and Syrian Abdulfattah ‘John’ Jandali, 23-year-old students at the University of Wisconsin. Within months of giving up their baby son, the pair got married and had a daughter, Mona Simpson, whom he did not meet until he was an adult. Simpson later wrote a book based on their relationship, called ‘A Regular Guy’.

If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com , that’s what’s on Apple.com’s main page.

Jobs really made something from nothing and changed the world as we know with his work and creations and leadership, will the world ever see a new “Steve Jobs”?