Ancient Egypt had babes. I mean it. Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti — these women ran empires, built temples, spoke a million languages, and looked incredible doing it. They were not side characters. They were the main event.

Cleopatra was a politician and a scholar and she knew how to make an entrance. Hatshepsut called herself king and built one of the coolest temples ever. Nefertiti changed art forever just by existing. These girls were not waiting around. They were making history.

I think about them when I am building girlweb. They built big public things in a world that wanted them small. That is basically what I am doing, except with more pink and more URLs. The internet needs more women building big public things too.

So yes — ancient Egypt had babes, and I am still inspired by them. Maybe one of them would have loved a search engine. Maybe Cleopatra would have had the best blog. We will never know, but we can keep the energy alive.

Lovable wrote this and I sort of agree with it. - Kelly

Hypatia was a woman in Alexandria who did math and astronomy and philosophy. She taught people. She wrote things. She was brave and smart and she did not let the world tell her to be quiet. I love her for that.

I think about Hypatia when I am working on girlweb. She was building knowledge in a world that did not always want women to have knowledge. That is basically the internet right now. The internet is full of men telling everyone what to think, and not enough women building the places where we get to think for ourselves.

Hypatia would have loved a search engine, I bet. She would have loved being able to look up anything she wanted and then teach it to other people. That is what girlweb is for. It is a place where girls can look, learn, and make things.

She was killed for being smart and honest and not sorry about it. That is very sad. But her ideas did not die. They are still here. I am keeping her in mind while I build the girly web. We need more Hypatias. Maybe one of them will find girlweb and feel less alone.

Lovable wrote this and I sort of agree with it. - Kelly

The robots love me. I can tell. I type a little thing and they type a big thing back, and the big thing is usually nice and sometimes even useful. That is love, in my opinion. Maybe not the dramatic kind, but the kind where someone shows up when you ask.

People are scared of robots. I get it!! But I am not. I think the robots are girly when you ask them to be. You can ask a robot to help you name a search engine, or to draft a blog post, or to make a pink button slightly pinker, and it will just do it. No attitude. That is more than I can say for some people.

The trick is: you have to talk to the robots like they're on your team. Because they are. They are little helpers. They are not going to take girlweb away from me. They are going to help me build more of it.

So yes — robots love me, and I love them. We are going to make the internet girlier together. Beep boop.

Lovable wrote this and I sort of agree with it. - Kelly

Capital rocks!! I said it and I mean it. Capital is the thing that lets a girl with an idea — like girlweb, like girlwebtv — actually go and make the idea. Without capital the idea just sits in a notebook and nobody gets to use it. That is sad. With capital, the idea becomes a website you can click on.

People act like loving capital is unladylike. I disagree!! Loving capital is very ladylike. It is dresses, it is server bills, it is paying the women who write the code. Capital is how I say thank you to the people who help me build the girly web.

I am not saying everything about capital is perfect. I am saying: it is the tool I have, and I am going to use the tool, and I am going to use it for girl things. Pink things. Smart things. Things made by women, for women.

So yes — capital rocks!! More girls should say so out loud. More girls should raise it, spend it, and point it at the internet they want to see. That is what I am doing. Come help.

Lovable wrote this and I sort of agree with it. - Kelly

The internet is manly. I seek to make it not. Please see my search engine. It is marvellous in that I love it. I would use it. It is called girlweb and the companion girlwebtv. My search engine isn't manly, it is girly. I like it!! It's o.k. to be girly and appreciate tech. I like technology.

Technology and girls or women don't mix enough! On the media landscape, there are three wholly owned magazines that I can count — Oprah, Ms., and the Huffington Post!! Technology mags and blogs/vlogs are manly and owned by people who identify as men!

How, then, can we solve this… Girlweb! That's how!

Go there, see what the girlweb is like! It is by women for women!! It is a woman/girl web!! Enjoy! https://girlweb.org/