Ben built a 50-year device timeline in one morning with AI

50 years of tech devices

Ben Tossell spent a morning building a site with Codex and Factory that shows 87 iconic devices from 1976 to 2026. All images were generated by Astra, using 40 messages and 7 subagents, and it has received 1,455 votes so far. The project started from a 'forgotten devices' idea, took inspiration from Cole's timeline scrubber demo, and had agents find reference photos, generate new images, and fill gaps after 2009. The post doesn't detail each device's model or generation cost.