{"id":10,"date":"2005-11-04T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/about-the-author\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:47:43","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/about-the-author","title":{"rendered":"About the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/redwolf\/redwolf_window_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/redwolf\/benj_small.png\" alt=\"Benj Edwards\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><strong>Benj Edwards&#8217;<\/strong> diverse interests in science and the arts inspire his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjedwards.com\" target=\"_blank\">written works<\/a> on the past, present, and future of technology.<\/p>\n<p>As a collector and student of vintage computers and video games for over 20 years, he brings a unique sense of history to publications such as PC World, Wired, Macworld, 1UP, and Ars Technica.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of <em>Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em> (<em>VC&#038;G<\/em>), a regularly updated blog dedicated to classic technology.  <em>VC&#038;G&#8217;s<\/em> unusual devotion to both computer and video game history has attracted millions of readers since November 2005.<\/p>\n<p>As a songwriter and musician, Edwards previously formed the world&#8217;s first &#8220;dot-com band,&#8221; Request-A-Song.com, which also doubled as an innovative and artistically challenging website that explored audience interactivity, online music distribution methods, and new music business models, gaining acclaim from Billboard and USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>The alias &#8220;RedWolf,&#8221; which you may see on older <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> posts, comes from Benj&#8217;s days as a regular BBS user and Sysop, where selecting entertaining fictitious names was the norm.  He&#8217;s been known by it online ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benj Edwards&#8217; diverse interests in science and the arts inspire his written works on the past, present, and future of technology. As a collector and student of vintage computers and video games for over 20 years, he brings a unique sense of history to publications such as PC World, Wired, Macworld, 1UP, and Ars Technica. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}