This paper discusses the Small Histories website, a work-in progress that aims to create an online network of interlinked personal narratives by facilitating the creation and sharing of life stories. It investigates ways the Internet can support the urge to tell and share one’s personal history, and explores some attendant issues. The question is raised: can personal and communal identity be reconstructed through web-based performances in the form of shared online narratives? In response, this paper poses the proposition that the Internet can be deployed as a performance space, with tools made available for people to gather and unite fragments from the traumatic past, and present them to an online audience.