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If you ever used Fidonet or BBS mail, this was Mark “Sparky” Herring, who developed the .QWK file format, that tragically died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q
by rajbot 5y ago
If you ever used Fidonet or BBS mail, this was Mark “Sparky” Herring, who developed the .QWK file format, that tragically died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)
- shadilay 5y agoI'm surprised this isn't higher up.
- rajbot 5y agoPlease see this heartbreaking Twitter thread from Jason Scott on Sparky Herring and QWK https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1417941046781259782?s=21 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1417941046781259782?s=2...
- CTOSian 5y agoThats tragic! :( I never met with that guy but I spent some time making an QWK program for RISC-OS (Archimedes). RIP Mark!
- EricE 5y agoOMG - I loved .QWK and the universe around it. Indeed I often lament the wish that web forums would support something like QWK so I could use a reader/editor of my choice - web forums suck. What a senseless tragedy :(