- IMS
- Early AOL convos
- Quick correspondence not IRL
- Late-night chats, perhaps
- Certain brand of rugged footwear, in slang
- Contacts, in a way
- Contacts by cell, often, nowadays
- Contacts via AOL, if that was still a thing that happened
- Communications in the '90s
- Contacts, as someone in a buddy list
- Contacts via AOL, circa 1997
- Contacts through Gmail
- Google Hangout communiques
- Online chats
- Quick online communiqués
- Some Gmail conversations
- Talks over Gmail, say
- Uses Gmail chat, e.g.
- Types TBH or AFK, likely
- Drops a line on Facebook
- Sends a quick word
- Uses Slack, maybe
- Communicates with emojis
- Types out a conversation
- Types over Skype
- Online chat bits, for short
- AOL communiques
- Online corr.
- Online talks
- Cyberspace exchanges
- Some AOL notes
- ICQ lines
- Some AOL exchanges
- 16-Across and others
- They may contain emoji
- 12-Downs, e.g., briefly
- Common media in which to see netspeak
- Emoji, maybe
- Content of a virtual thread
- Some sexting
- Textese is often used in them
- Chat string
- Some on-line chats, for short
- Private on-line chats, for short
- AOL communications
- Brief notes to one's buddies
- Online communications, for short
- Sends a quick note online
- Connects with on AOL
- Facebook exchanges, briefly
- On-line chat components, for short
- On-line exchanges, briefly
- Brief notes to a cyberbuddy
- Chats on-line, briefly
- Facebook exchanges, for short
- Gchat exchanges, briefly
- Cyberchats, briefly
- Online chitchat, briefly
- OMG and TTYL
- Quick online notes, briefly
- Uses an AOL service
- Chatters' boxes, for short
- Chats online with, briefly
- Some AOL missives
- AOL chats
- AOL exchanges
- AOL pop-ups
- Contacts online, briefly
- Modern missives, for short
- Places to see "fwiw" and "btw"
- Places to see smileys, briefly
- Much cybercommunication, briefly
- Uses Trillian, briefly
- AOL backs-and-forths
- AOL chat components
- Facebook notes, briefly
- Cybernotes
- Net exchange
- Online exchange
- Uses Gchat, e.g.
- Virtual chats
- Web chat exchange
- GroupMe exchanges, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's eight longest answers
- Cybertalk elements
- Online chats, briefly
- Online exchange, briefly
- Uses Google Hangouts, briefly
- Online notes
- Cyberchats, for short
- Exchanges on WhatsApp, for short
- Short chats?
- Cyberchats
- Old AOL exchanges
- Online convos
- Some online exchanges, briefly
- Online chats: Abbr.
- Exchanges from 98 Down
- Some strings of emojis
- LOL venues
- ezTalks communications
- Online exchanges
- Cybernote exchanges, for short
- Online text exchanges: Abbr.
- Some on-line communications, for short
- Has an online chat with, perhaps
- Architect Pei and others
- Chats online, for short
- Contents of some chats, in brief
- Some exchanges via AOL, once
- Quick online notes, for short
- AOL chitchat
- Contacts 21st century-style
- Real-time e-notes
- Some AOL communications
- Some exchanges, quickly
- Exchanges that may come with emoticons, briefly
- Sends an OMG or LOL, say
- E-mail alternatives
- Modern communications, for short
- Pre-texting texts, for short
- Some AOL transmissions
- Some online communications, briefly
- Pre-texts?
- Relatives of texts, for short
- Uses WhatsApp, say
- Writes to briefly?
- Gchat notes, e.g.
- Modern communications of a sort, in brief
- Gchat exchange, for short
- Gchats, e.g.
- Some chats, briefly
- Alternatives to texts
- Brief exchanges?
- Gchat transmissions, briefly
- Responds to on WhatsApp, say
- Some digital chats, informally
- Some exchanges, in brief
- Content of some chats, in brief
- Cook and Curry
- Online exchange, in brief
- Pings
- Some online comments, for short
- Communications on Slack, e.g.
- Contacts quickly, in a way
- Pings, maybe
- Reaches online, in a way
- Sends a Telegram, in brief?
- Some Facebook exchanges, in brief
- Quick notes, quickly
- Sends a ping, in brief
- Some online communications, in brief
- WeChat chats, in brief
- Quick chats?
- Real-time PC exchanges
- Contacts digitally
- Sends a note to, in a way
- Real-time AOL chat notes
- Quick AOL exchanges
- Private AOL exchanges
- Pings online
- Communicates via AOL
- Reaches out via WhatsApp, say
- Text convo units
- Google Chats, e.g.
- Some of Joe and Kathleen's convos, in "You've Got Mail"
- Chats, in a way
- Chats with, PC-style
- Chats on Slack
- Pings on Telegram, e.g.
- Texts, for short
- Web chats
- Facebook chitchat, informally
- Online chat parts, briefly
- How r u? and others
- Online convo parts
- Sends a text, briefly
- Text convo parts
- Web exchange
- Online chats, for short
- Some online exchanges
- Contacts via WhatsApp
- Chats on GChat, e.g.
- Chats online
- Real-time online notes, for short
- Chats on a PC
- Transmissions on Slack, for short
- Chats on AIM, e.g.
- Chats on WhatsApp
- AOL notes
- Contacts online, for short
- Alternatives to e-mail
- They often include "LOL" and "BRB"
- Online exchanges, for short
- Some PC communications
- Precursors to texts
- Precursors to texts, for short
- Outmoded AOL communications
- Text precursors, for short
- Types notes to, back in the day
- Forerunners of texts, in brief
- Has an online convo with
- Some digital chats, for short
- Text precursors
