Editing Steve Wozniak (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Steve Wozniak in 1968 Pegasus.jpg|thumb|upright|Wozniak's 1968 [[Homestead High School (Cupertino, California)|Homestead High School]] yearbook photo]]
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Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950, in [[San Jose, California]].<ref name="iWoz" />{{rp|page=18}}<ref name=biography.com>{{cite web|title=Steve Wozniak|url=http://www.biography.com/people/steve-wozniak-9537334|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=July 4, 2016|archive-date=July 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703014405/http://www.biography.com/people/steve-wozniak-9537334|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wizard">{{cite book |title=Steve Wozniak: A Wizard Called Woz |url=https://archive.org/details/stevewozniakwiza00gold |url-access=registration |author=Rebecca Gold |publisher=Lerner |date=1994 |isbn=9780822528814 }}</ref>{{rp|page=13}}<ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|page=27}} His mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014), was from [[Washington (state)|Washington state]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2014 |title=Margaret Wozniak, mother of Apple's co-founder, dead at 91 |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/06/margaret-wozniak-mother-of-apples-co-founder-dead-at-91/ |access-date=November 4, 2022 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US |archive-date=December 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222033512/https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/06/margaret-wozniak-mother-of-apples-co-founder-dead-at-91/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) of [[Michigan]],<ref name="iWoz" />{{rp|page=18}} was an engineer for the [[Lockheed Corporation]].<ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|page=1}} Wozniak graduated from [[Homestead High School (Cupertino, California)|Homestead High School]] in 1968, in [[Cupertino, California]].<ref name="Wizard"/>{{rp|page=25}} Steve has one brother, Mark Wozniak, a former tech executive who lives in Menlo Park. He also has one sister, Leslie Wozniak. She attended Homestead High School in Cupertino. She is a grant adviser at Five Bridges Foundation, which helps at-risk youths in San Francisco. She once said it was her mother who introduced activism to her and her siblings.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 19, 2017|title=Steve Wozniak Family - Parents, Wife, Children, Siblings|url=https://www.celebfamily.org/steve-wozniak|access-date=November 1, 2021|website=CelebFamily|language=en-US|archive-date=November 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101205127/https://www.celebfamily.org/steve-wozniak|url-status=live}}</ref>

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The name on Wozniak's birth certificate is "Stephan Gary Wozniak", but his mother said that she intended it to be spelled "Stephen", which is what he uses.<ref name="iWoz" />{{rp|page=18}} Wozniak is of [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Germany|German]] ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |last= Wozniak|first= Steve|title= Letters-General Questions Answered |url= http://www.woz.org|website= Woz.org|location= |publisher= |url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150625205134/http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/63.html#expand |archive-date = June 25,  2015 |access-date= April 6, 2025 |quote= My mother's family came from Germany. My father's family came from Poland. I think this is accurate. Either family might have come from the other country, or near the border.}}</ref> He has mentioned the surname "[[Wozniak]]" being Polish.<ref name="wozorg-polish">{{cite web |url=http://www.woz.org/letters/about-your-last-name/ |title=About your last name |last=Wozniak |first=Steve |website=Woz.org |date=January 3, 2018 |access-date=August 28, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029014549/http://www.woz.org/letters/about-your-last-name/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="iWoz" />{{rp|pages=129–130|quote= Being a Polish Wozniak who tells and laughs at Polish jokes&nbsp;... Twelve years later the same Polish-American Congress gave me its Heritage Award, its highest award for achievements by a Polish-American.}} In the early 1970s, Wozniak's [[blue box]] design earned him the nickname "Berkeley Blue" in the [[phreaking]] community.<ref name=slate.com/><ref>{{cite news |last=Lapsley |first=Phil |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/02/16/from_phreaks_to_apple_steve_jobs_and_steve_wozniaks_eureka_moment/ |title=From "phreaks" to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's "eureka!" moment |work=[[Salon.com]] |date=February 16, 2013 |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-date=November 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101070439/http://www.salon.com/2013/02/16/from_phreaks_to_apple_steve_jobs_and_steve_wozniaks_eureka_moment/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wozniak has credited watching ''[[Star Trek]]'' and attending [[Star Trek convention|''Star Trek'' conventions]] while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hasan |first1=Zaki |title=Interview: Steve Wozniak on Sci-Fi, Comic Books, and How Star Trek Shaped the Future |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-steve-wozniak-on-sci-fi-comic-books-and_b_58f7e86de4b081380af51897 |website=HuffPost |access-date=October 19, 2021 |date=April 19, 2017 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612031533/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interview-steve-wozniak-on-sci-fi-comic-books-and_us_58f7e86de4b081380af51897 |url-status=live }}</ref> In his autobiography, ''[[iWoz]]'', he also credits the [[Tom Swift Jr.]] books as an inspiration for becoming an engineer.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nitrozac |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sNyHOckYp5oC&dq=%E2%80%9Cthat+engineers+can+save+the+world+from+all+sorts+of+conflict+and+evil%E2%80%9D&pg=PP1 |title=The Best of the Joy of Tech |last2=Snaggy |date=2003 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=978-0-596-00578-8 |edition= |at=Foreword |language=en}}</ref>