The Kelly Rowland/Nelly song Dilemma features an infamous scene amongst nerds where Kelly Rowland tries to send a message to Nelly using a Nokia 9210 Communicator.
Unfortunately, she does this using the built in spreadsheet program and receives no reply.
People suggested she might be using the =HYPERLINK() function in Excel, but would that even work?
The answer is a definite maybe. You could construct a hyperlink with the SMS scheme (sms:<number>?body=<text>) and then click it. Some operating systems handle it, some don’t.
For example, if I type an sms: URI in to the Firefox address bar, KDE connect will offer to send that SMS from my phone (after 2 clicks and having to actually confirm it on the handset.) The same would happen if someone were to include an SMS uri in a webpage, or presumably an excel spreadsheet.
(Also, it’s entirely possible that the Series 80 spreadsheet program just recognised URIs and made them clickable without having to use a function. I have a 9500 communicator, but it died so sadly I can’t confirm or deny this. I’m about 60% confident that Series 80 supported SMS URIs.)
This article makes very little sense without a link to the music video. I’m not familiar with the artist or video, but here it is at 3:14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc
Curious that they typed messages into a spreadsheet. Was that somehow intentional or were they simply cheap/lazy about the prop and figured nobody would care that it was a spreadsheet?
Surely we are not making commentary on music videos from 20 years ago that happened to feature sponsored brand names that happened to be Nokia.