Tech savvy students remember Steve Jobs

NORFOLK, Va. (AP/WAVY) - Steve Jobs died at 56 years old, yet his revolutionary ideas and products forever changed people's lives.

"Everyone's got an iPod now. You can't say, 'I don't know what an iPod is,'" said Old Dominion University student Cody Boyd.

Steve Jobs' face lit up screens at The Apple Store at Atlanta's big Lenox Mall as word of his death set many somberly talking of the only news that mattered to many.

In this major Southeast city, many lamenting the death of Apple's co-founder texted or spread the word Wednesday on the iPhone he pioneered.

A 20-year-old Georgia Tech student, Mareela Moreno, told The Associated Press her generation grew up using computers and looked up to Jobs and Bill Gates. She says Jobs' passing makes her feell like "our generation is actually old."

A second ODU student said, "I've had a first generation iTouch for about three years now. And I've got bunches, hundreds of applications - music applications, games - play it all day long."

While the ODU students that WAVY.com spoke with are confident Jobs' technology will live on, they said the deeper message behind his life will too.

ODU student Nick Jennings said, "If you set your mind to it, you can do anything you want. Just imagine it and you can go with it. You just got to work for it. You've got to know what you want to do. It's pretty inspirational, he was a good man."