It is well known that history went through two phases: oral and written recording, and the oral is considered to have precedence and is adopted in most of what is written. The historian Herodotus (484-425 BC) relied on oral testimonies and eyewitnesses to write the history of the Median wars. As for Thucydides (470-395 BC), he developed the method of historiography by relying on oral narration in the introduction to his book on the Peloponnesian Wars.The historian who wants to write down what preceded it from the event or what did not happen before it, he relies on the oral narration to write it down.
Until the days of the Islamic state, it relied on oral narration, and they introduced the science of hadith and the science of narrators of hadith to document authentic narrations from the weak, and historians appeared writing what they went through in terms of events, and their writings became manuscripts as a documented source for knowing history, and from these manuscript texts a specialized science emerged, which is the science of manuscript investigation.
Today, electronic technology has entered to sweep away the oral and written. Websites, especially those specialized in events, heritage, history, and research that record information electronically, and this information, whatever it is, remains subject to doubt. It is not documented except for an event that has no written evidence or a documented witness talking regarding it. A website is unique in confirming it. It is a subject of study and not neglect. .
But who is in control of this date? It is the state that controls the satellites that are the source of energy for these sites and that can delete and distort what is inconsistent with the management of these satellites.
How many presentations occurred on websites, they quickly deleted or distorted them, so it cannot be a source. Rather, electronic writing affected when it relied on converting written texts into electronic texts, as the obstacles in installing them increased, as it may have a typographical error and not a spelling, or perhaps there are malicious souls messing around. With the facts of history and deceive everyone who does not have a paper copy of this book, he cannot verify the validity of the information and believes that it is correct, so most researchers avoid electronic sources, especially for sensitive information, but I saw many of them rely on electronic mentioning the link of the site, and this cannot be considered evidence with the sincerity of the researcher.
For example, there is a typography in the manuscripts through confusion with similar letters in the drawing, meaning, for example, the ha, the kha, and the jim.
However, it is not possible to marginalize the great benefit that electronic history achieves by storing the sites that contain the required events away from the Internet service, and the electronic is the case with the written, as the electronic is exposed to the virus, and the written is exposed to the earthworm and the rest of the natural influences.
The other problem is when you read a written and photographed event on the website, and the owner of the website appears following the news has spread to say that his website has been hacked and what is shown is incorrect, so from where do you verify that? Its verification is done through the administration that controls the provider of the electronic service of the site, and the most influential are the owners of the satellites.
But the dangerous thing is that electronic history, in moments, affects public opinion and has no limits. When its impact occurs, it is difficult to convince people that the news is false, if it is false.
The written document remains the most reliable in its information, but it is approved even when investigating crimes more than the sound and image. The developed electronic programs can change the sound and image according to what they want, so that it raises doubt, anxiety and lack of credibility on the one hand and distorts the truth on the other hand.
