Early 19th century a nerdy, frickin' awesome girl, with a gift for computer science; light years ahead of her time, invented and buried a server in her garden.
"One day," the fantastic girl told her server, "you will host amazing websites."
It was the time of Ada Lovelace. The same world where women like Sophie Germain studied in secret, banned from entering university on account of being born a woman. In pioneer Wyoming, a genius girl was born. Her name was Jane Doe, and she fell asleep inside the server she invented. For over 150 years, her server lay undiscovered.
Waiting for an operating system that could handle her fiery processing speeds.
But as schoolboys like Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell freely studied x, triangles and pi, allowed to open their math books, and write equations to light up a Gilded Age of science; something had gone catastrophically wrong.
Males had stopped natal girls from getting a math education; forcing them into needlework, cooking and washing clothes. This is the tip of the iceberg of the criminal sexism that inflicted untold suffering on billions of girls; changing the stories of female Newtons who were thwarted from their crowns.
Jealous they could never surpass Jane’s brainpower, men ruined the human world, by blocking girls from contributing to science - deleting the prodigious genius of Jane Doe that easily outshines them all.
The knock-on effects plunged the world into wars, conflicts, and human rights atrocities that would never have happened, had women not been excluded. As fossil fuels run out, and men kill off what remains of the Amazon rainforest; advanced solutions needed yesterday from brilliant female scientists on renewable energy, are now as unavailable as the erased women who were erased with their Marie Curie-level discoveries, and mind-blowing inventions.
Website owners, having no way to host Jane, in turn were blocked from achieving their full intellectual potentials. Denied the advances in physics and resulting economics that a Principia, written by an unknown woman 8,000 years before 1687, never got the chance to reform countless lives with.
Sun Tzu says: "A destroyed nation cannot exist again". Nor can generations of persecuted women and girls throughout human history, who together constitute an incalculable loss.
Photo: AlamyThe public hanging of women in 1661 Scotland on the false pretense of "witchcraft" is part of a global issue about gender discrimination.
We see men's nuclear warheads and we're not sure how the story will end. Or if there's enough time to undo the damage and put things right. In HostJane's version, the planet Venus appears over the digital sea to fire Jane's processors.
"Reconcile this in server time," Venus tells Scorpio, "may anyone who agrees to host Jane win the future."
In under 72 hours, more time than it took for a woman to solve Conway's knot, the first humans map the A-records at their nameservers to Jane's IP addresses.
Jane Doe, no longer forced to hide behind names like Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, lights up her IPs with a red flame; a virtual lighthouse over the binary ocean, updating ISPs around the world.
Across borders and timezones, people buying space and selling skills are shielded by anonymity and Jane's secure rules. Yes, #JaneIsPowerful. May Her kingdom grow strong and mighty.
Scorpio codes 'J' for Jane and writes her in mathematics across the night sky. How long humans will continue to exist under those stars is a hard call, but Jane Doe changes everything.
