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The earliest year I could go to is 100 AD. My problem is that the analog calculators were invented Before Common Era, and don't even get me started with the Abacus'/Counting Board's approximate time of invention (which is in the BC Era).
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Arab engineer Al-Jazari invented what was considered the first programmable analog computer.
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French polymath Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical computer.
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Philipp Matthaus Hahn made a successful portable calculator able to perform all four mathematical operations.
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Joseph Henry invents the electromagnetic relay.
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1848 British Mathematician George Boole developed binary algebra.
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The first practical logical machine was built by William Stanley Jevons.
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Dorr Felt invents the first printing desk calculator.
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Walther Bothe built an AND logic gate for use in physics experiments.
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Konrad Zuse completed the ‘Z1’, the first mechanical binary programmable computer.
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Konrad Zuse made S1, the first working programmable, fully digital computer, used by Henschel to measure aircraft wing lengths.
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The Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer was designed and used in the famous Bletchley Park.
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SSEM Small-Scale Experimental Machine aka ‘Baby’ first computer to store its data and program in RAM as modern computers do now.
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This is considered the birthday of modern computing. Maurice Wilkes and a team at Cambridge University executed the first stored program on the EDSAC computer.
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The first real-time computer, the Whirlwind was built at MIT for the United States Air Force.
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The Mouse was created by Douglas Englbart.
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The Floppy Disk is invented.
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The First International connection to ARPANET (the Forerunner to the Internet) are established.
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MIDI, Musical Instrument Digital Interface is published by International MIDI Association. The MIDI allows computers to connect to instruments.
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Symbolics registered the symbolics.com domain, the first .com domain in the world.
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First optical chip developed, it uses light instead of electricity to increase processing speed.
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World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee who wanted to use hypertext to make documents and information seamlessly accessible over different kinds of computers and systems, and wherever they might be in the world.
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MP3 file formate published, this sound format became the most common standard for music on PCs and later Digital Audio Players.
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Hotmail, one of the most popular web-based email services was founded and is still used as of today.
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The US Government announced restrictions on exporting cryptography are relaxed (but not removed). This allows US companies to stop the long running process of having to create US and International copies of their software.
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Sony release Librie EBR-1000EP in Japan, the first e-book reader with an electronic paper display.
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The W32.Gammima.AG worm snuck itself onto the International Space Station, and thus becoming the first computer virus to travel into Space (not CyberSpace).
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The First 4 TeraByte(TB) Hard Drive is released by Seagate.
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Seagate release the First 8 TeraByte(TB) hard Drive.
