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Some of the oldest technology dating back millennia BCE, the abacus was an invention that influenced the binary abacus's of today.
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If we are talking the beginning of computing technology, the Antikythera Mechanism was the world's first (oldest recorded) analog computer.
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This was called the “Model K” Adder because George Stibitz created this on his kitchen table, this simple demonstration circuit lead to the construction of the relay based CNC
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David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded Hewlett-Packard in their garage and developed the HP 200A Audio Oscillator.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories creates and finishes the design for the CNC with the help of the aforementioned George Stibitz. This was the first example of remote access computing through telephone lines.
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This was an early computer engineered by Konrad Zuse. It used 2300 relays to perform floating point binary calculations. Unfortunately the aerodynamic calculation capable machine was destroyed in 1943 during World War II
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The Kilburn Tube was the world's first fully electronic storage unit.
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This computing beast began development in 1943. In 1948 the ENIAC system was revealed to the public. Said to be 1000 times faster than any computer that came before, this computer used panel to panel wiring for programming. It occupied over 1000 square feet of space. It costed $487000 to manufacture.
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Jumping Ahead to 1948, Frederic Williams, Tom Killburn, and Geoff Toothill create the SSEM (Small Scale Experimental Machine).
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Jumping ahead to the birth of operating systems, the IBM system was the first of its kind. It was designed for their 360 mainframe computer.
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This piece of history was released by Intel Corporation with it's marketing selling it as a microprocessor. It was a joint effort between Intel and Japan's Busicom. It could handle up to 90000 operations per second.
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The Apple-1 was a single board computer that was the predecessor to the legendary consumer produced Apple-II
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When the OS titan MACOS was created microsoft wanted to create a formidable competitor. That being said I think they blasted that statement out of the water when they created the Windows OS. It was a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for MS-DOS.
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This was a pioneer in portable computing power (in apple's case at least). The extremely expensive, 16lbs monster wasn't as highly praised as anticipated despite it having strong computing power.
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One of the earliest milestones of cloud computing came with the arrival of salesforce.com. It was the first site to deliver applications over the internet via a simple website.
