By WALT MOSSBERG The Wall Street Journal Thursday, August 25, 2011 As of 12:00 AM Steve Jobs’s resignation as Chief Executive Officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general. Mr. Jobs is a historic business figure whose impact was felt far beyond the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters, and who was widely emulated at other companies. And now, for the first time since 1997, he won’t be CEO. Steve Jobs is “one of the two or three leading historical figures of the tech revolution,” says WSJ personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg. To be very clear, Mr. Jobs, while seriously ill,…