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With the hashtag ‘iSad’ and ‘RIP Steve Jobs’ trending on Twitter — which some may find is over capacity due to overwhelming activity — many who knew him personally have tweeted their sadness of Steve Job’s passing.

Jobs, the Apple co-founder and former chief executive officer who became a remarkable man in the technology world, passed away on October 5. He was 56.

Jobs suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009. He stepped down as Apple’s CEO this August, naming Tim Cook as his successor.

Friends and supporters of Jobs, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama and Steve Wozniak, have called him a visionary and a hero of the tech world.

Many students at Oakland University discovered the news of Jobs’ passing through a device he created. Those who idolized his endeavors in technology were stunned by the news.

“I am in shock and saddened,” said Evan Fisher, a mechanical engineering major at OU. “His innovations impacted us all. He truly raised the bar in the industry and will become a paradigm for truly great entrepreneurs.”

Job’s family commented that Steve died peacefully and surrounded by a family in a recent release. A website will be created for those who wish to leave words in remembrance.

While many continue to lament over the passing of the man who has been called a hero of the technology world, others choose to take a more positive outlook on the situation and reflect on the life rather than the breaking news of the death.

Lennon Turner, a philosophy major, looks at death as a natural occurrence and said that it is nonsensical to be dismal about someone whom he had no emotional attachment to passing.

“When you look at death as a natural phenomenon that’s unavoidable, then in reality, it’s not such a terrible thing,” said Turner.

Turner said that he has owned Apple products.

A college dropout at the age of 21, Jobs helped create the Macintosh computer and founded Apple Inc., of which he was fired from at the age of 30. After launching another computer firm, NeXT, which aided in the creation of the World Wide Web, and Pixar, he returned to Apple and refocused the company to what it is now.

Jobs led Apple to multimillion-dollar success in five years and revolutionized music consumption with iTunes and several models and generations of the iPod.