What was your first Apple experience? Mine was the PowerBook, and truth be told, it wasn't that memorable.

But I do remember my second — it was the "lampshade" iMac. I bought it nearly 10 years ago and have run it hard. And guess what? It's still works! And it's still beautiful.

With the death of Steve Jobs — who demanded that Apple products be "insanely great" — we went to the Apple store in downtown San Francisco and asked folks about their first Apple experience. The Oracle OpenWorld conference happens to be in town, drawing techies from across the globe. They all had a story to tell — a reminder of just how far Jobs' influence has spread.

Here's what they had to say. Share your memories in the comments.

Tantri Hariadi, 36, lives in Indonesia came to the Apple store after she found out about Jobs' death. “I feel connected, I follow his work and buy his products. I just feel like I want to be here,” she said.

Robert Tankson, 25, an independent investor, found out about Jobs' passing while checking his stocks. An email came in from a friend, and Tankson didn’t believe it until he saw the news on the Apple website.

George Michael, 26, works as a social media marketer. He had heard rumors that Jobs was on his death bed during Apple’s product launch on Tuesday. As an Arab-American, Michael said Jobs, who was half-Syrian, was an inspiration. “There’s a lot of bad rap for us nowadays and he was a little shining light.”

Doctor Popular has been making art and doing photography with the iPhone for a couple of years. “Everything [Jobs has] had his fingers is in is something I’ve dedicated a large part of my life to,” he said.

Alex Schembri, 35, flew in from Paris for the Oracle OpenWorld conference. He works in IT and calls Jobs “the God of IT.” He “changed the way we look at technology,” Schembri said.

Sophia Tseng, 33, works at Oracle. She says Jobs was a “visionary, and there’s no other innovators like him.”