Remembering Steve Jobs: The Day Technology Went Dark  Steve
Jobs: 1955-2011  Wednesday night, the web started gurgling up
strange things, as it so often does. Rumors sprung up that Steve
Jobs, longtime Apple CEO and co-founder, had passed away — and
just a single day after the announcement of the newest iPhone.
There were just a few murmurings at first. Then word began to
tear through Twitter, rounding out the rest of the real-time
social media circuit. Then it hit Facebook. Suddenly we were
hemorrhaging texts. This was big.  Ever since Jobs was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer, the internet had occasionally cried
wolf. Maybe someone tweeted something particularly cryptic,
maybe some third-rate blog looking for hits shamelessly claimed
that Steve Jobs was dead.  But then it actually happened.  Sites
across the web had been sitting on unpublished drafts announcing
the Apple founder’s death for years. Magazines had it all laid
out, only the particulars were missing, the final numerical
bookend to be filled in o