On the internet, a moment might last a minute or a lifetime. To try to document its endless, ever-changing and increasingly hyperindividualized landscape inspires more questions than answers: Where would you start, and how? For Jeanne Thornton and Miracle Jones, the task begins close to home. As co-publishers of Remember the Internet, a series of books by Instar Books, the pair works with authors on putting out deeply personal accounts of bygone internet communities, exploring how these moments shaped not only online culture, but ourselves as individuals.

NATHAN MA: Recording the internet in print seems almost futile. What’s at stake with this kind of archive-making?

JEANNE THORNTON: The whole idea of ephemerality is that it really does disappear. Technology, or the stylings of t...