PAL key
A lousy term for someone you chat with online before the Internet got good. You met them on a forum and now you waste your life sending them messages that could’ve been a text.
I used to write to my key pal every day. Now I just text him and he texts me back. What’s the point?
My key pal sent me a 10-page e-mail about his cat. I didn’t even ask about the cat.
I had a key pal in 1999. He had a dial-up connection and it took 20 minutes to send a message.