Computing history

A hollerith card, could hold up to 64 bytes.

This from History of Digital Storage

One program was a shoe box full of these cards. The result was Fortran, a deliberately minimal, and specialized script language.

Even today we hear the words 'tape drive' in the linux community.

First memory chip.

The first solid state logic gate. A regular 'linear' amplifier, this transistor is forced into two meta stable states; on and off. This pic from History of Transistor.

An early internet router.  They used Morse code, a more efficient version of ascii.  Morse was Huffman encoded, frequent letters had the shortest code.
... - .... .- - .. ... .... .. ... - --- .-. -.--

The first web browser. Xwindows carried the display server model into the 21st century.