[joenathanone]

The "sheet" file could have been acting as the datastore for a text messaging program, Kelly being so distraught over having not receiving a response in a timely manner from Nelly lead her to check the datastore to make sure that the program wasn't malfunctioning by not showing new messages.

[carrja99]

Spreadsheet as a database is a common pattern.

[bentcorner]

I also use Excel as a middle man to help copy/paste tables from one app to another.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Decades of use and improvements have made Excel a surprisingly good app for this. Even as recently as 5 years ago I would paste outputs from databases in there to do quick cleanups of data for small scale analysis

[FredPret]

This is clearly what she meant to do

[gowld]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilemma_(song)

"An accompanying music video was directed by Benny Boom and released in September 2002."

Apps like that weren't available then.

[joenathanone]

Mercury Instant Messager for Nokia 9210 / 9290

"a Jabber based, interoperatable client, is enabled with group conferencing abilities, third party gateway functionality (chatting with users from AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC, and more!), and unlimited contact storage."

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/Mercury_Instant_Mes...

[itishappy]

In fact, this very music video served as the inspiration for the first messaging app back in 2004.

"Managing all these spreadsheets is so cumbersome! Surely, there must be a better way..." - John Messages

Clearly, I'm missing your point.

[ryanmcbride]

you're misunderstanding the point of the exercise