Colombia in 1999, following the recommendations of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), issued Law 527 to deal with the legal and social realities generated in the world with the standardization of the network ( World Wide Web) and electronic mail (email), where electronic documents and their corresponding probative value were defined and equated to that of any printed or paper document.This article describes a timeline with the most significant events of legislative evolution and jurisprudential in Colombia from that moment to the present, in times of pandemic, to describe the probative value of electronic documents such as WhatsApp or email, and to show that their interpretation has not been peaceful, either with the character of full documentary evidence or simply as circumstantial evidence. Perhaps the time has come to clearly update our legislation to the new times. Since the arrival of digital tools, made much more visible with the obligatory virtuality as a result of the coronavirus, the world will never be the same again and the Law is no exception. This is the common thread that guides this writing.