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This chapter represents a narrative, ‘women and the Internet’, as a women and technology origin story with a fixed beginning, a contested centre and an open ending. This chapter analyses our engagement with this narrative as a pilot study was conducted to look at women’s perceptions of, and relationships to, the Internet. Although this story felt like a coherent and persuasive narrative, this was questioned as the outcomes of the pilot study were reflected upon. Women coming to the ‘Net’ led to a reconstruction of the questions that need to be addressed in researching gender and information technology. This chapter begins by describing and deconstructing the motivating story that was brought to this research project. Three genres are introduced – ‘the webbed Utopia’, ‘flamed out’ and ‘locked into locality’ – which are seen as forming the contested centre of this narrative. While each genre has its own narrative …