Going down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out how to restore some old QWK files, I came across this fascinating and tragic detail. Apparently Mark Herring, the guy who invented QWK (originally for PCBoard then adopted by others) died of a heart attack after being "swatted" (having a swat team called on him under false pretense). It all revolved around his refusal to give up his Twitter handle, @ Tennessee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Tennessee_swatting submitted by /u/minimizeconsidered [link] [comments]