The demise of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs brought a lot of tears from his admirers. It also renewed a fresh sense of inspiration from different people around the globe. 

Apple stores were adorned with flowers and thank you notes from Apple consumers. His name and death along with hashtags trended on Twitter for days. His words of wisdom are being passed from web page to web page and from SMS to SMS as if they were Holy Scriptures. There are the different causes and communities with tens to hundreds of Facebook pages that sprung overnight, theirs is picture badges that people put up on their social networking pictures, there’s a website and a number of blog posts that reminisce the greatness of Jobs – and there’s the new WordPress theme that virtually takes users back in time.

The WordPress theme called Retro MacOS is needless to say inspired by Steve Jobs. It features the very old yet original Mac feel with Mac OS icons serving as blog icons. 

The theme is already a featured theme on WordPress.com.  Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress even blogged about the theme, describing it as a tribute to Steve Jobs that’s worthy of attention. «Yesterday one of the tributes I noticed was the website Boing Boing switched their theme to one reminiscent of the original Macintosh interface, one of the several times Jobs would make a ding in the universe through his work. It seemed fitting, and we wanted to make it available to all of you, so our theme team worked through the night and here it is,» Matt wrote on his blog. 

The demo page of the theme found at retromacosdemo.wordpress.com/ and it sports memories connected to Steve Jobs: from the demo of the original Macintosh to his 2005 Standford Commencement Exercises speech where he gave a very unforgettable speech on lessons of life and death. 

The theme has the famous picture of Jobs as its header. It also features chunky-grade pixellated graphics, the early images featured on Mac. You can use the theme by going here. 

There are currently at least 1,283 blogs that use the theme.