I have come to the conclusion this will best be left to professionals, and a significant amount of oral history has in fact already been collected and curated, by professionals.<p>I wanted it to be me. The more I thought about it, the less equipped I felt. In some ways, it's the technologists curse, to believe your meta sense informs "the best way" when in fact, you're disrespecting another disciplines praxis assuming your amateur spider sense is the way.
I think Archive.org wayback machine and archive.today are going to be extremely valuable resources for "historical research" in the future. I hope they can continue their work via donor funding.
I've been thinking a lot about this too. I was thinking people should start collecting written histories of their recollections of the internet, so future historians can understand the dynamics which shaped their future-present, like the "Great Digg Migration" and the "Tumblr Exodus", etc.
Internet history is one part of the history of technology and you have people already trying to preserve it. Look at all the vintage computer groups that talk about the history of computers and computing. Some even talk about the history of BBS systems. They are the groups already involved and would enjoy the support of others who are interested