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Steve Jobs: The Best Internet Memes and Tributes

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The Daily Beast teamed up with BuzzFeed to track down the best Steve Jobs memes and graphics, created as tributes, from around the web. From a now-infamous rendering of the Apple logo to an imagined chat with Bill Gates, see the best.

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The Daily Beast teamed up with BuzzFeed to track down the best Steve Jobs memes and graphics, created as tributes, from around the Web. From a now-infamous rendering of the Apple logo to an imagined chat with Bill Gates, see the best.

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It's the graphic being passed around the Internet—the Apple logo remained with the silhouette of Steve Jobs. It was designed by 19-year-old Jonathan Mak Long, who says, “It's just this quiet realization that Apple is now missing a piece. It's just kind of implying his absence.”

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Steve Jobs didn't die, reads one image. He went to heaven to set up iCloud—Apple's cloud storage service launching Oct. 12.

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One Apple fan imagines Steve Jobs's gravestone as an iPod, where a "fatal error occurred"—a once-popular software error on iPods.

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A cartoonist imagines Steve Jobs's entrance into heaven, his first meeting with St. Peter, and the photo they take—with an iPhone 4. 

 

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The artist Joe Heller's "iCame, iSaw, iConquered."

 

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Apple's famous logo, with a tear.

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Angel Steve Jobs instructs Bill Gates to "hold down the technological fort." 

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The popular Web comic xkcd re-imagines the Eternal Flame. (Click through to xkcd and hover-over for the full experience.)

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It is said there were three apples that changed the world—Eve's, Newton's, and now Jobs's. This graphic by Razan Wehbi illustrates that.

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"Your time is limited," Steve Jobs reminds us in a now infamous quote. "So don't waste it living someone else's life."

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Originally created for Panorama, an Italian magazine, Charis Tsevis's mosaic portrait of Apple products displays Steve Jobs face—a testament to his far-reaching legacy at Apple.

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"I have an app for that!" Steve Jobs tells God, who's helplessly flipping through heaven's directory.

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