@mushi Lain is a very complicated show, a lot of the events are told out of order and many events are extraneous and not relevant to the overarching plot and recurring themes. There are also many interpretations of the show as much of its presentation is through abstract storytelling methods that show the view more than they tell them. Basically, the early events of the show involve some time after the inception of the internet, or "the wired", where laboratory researchers are attempting to find ways to create a connection from the wired to the outside world without the use of a conventional device or medium. So basically Lain was created as an AI that existed as an overseer of sorts of the wired itself (often being referred to as 'kami', which is a term originally used in old Shinto mythology that relates back to creator beings that were worshiped and later plays in with the show's themes of religion). CONT...
