ABSTRACT
The Internet, and in particular the web are young media artefacts, but they are coming of age and they have both crossed the 30-year line that is often used as a criterion for considering a topic relevant to study in a contemporary historical perspective. One of the recurring topics of discussion within all four phases of oral historiography identified by Thomson is that of the possible unreliability of memory. The collection of these interviews that appeared across the foundational years of the Internet Histories journal provides an opportunity to reflect on who, what topics, and what kind of framing features in these texts. A quality of this volume may well be that the conceptual and historical yield of oral histories alongside the need for care and reflexivity is brought to the fore because of the mix of kinds of historical conversations that are collected.
