Ernie Smith is the editor of Tedium, a long-running newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. A longtime contributor to Vice’s Motherboard, he has covered the history of technology from numerous angles, with a strong focus on vintage computers, console emulation, and forgotten obscurities. In a prior life, he worked in newspaper design, including at The Washington Post Express, The Virginian-Pilot, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His writing has been featured in Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, The Daily Beast, and Atlas Obscura.
