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This article aims to analyze the medical and journalistic discourses built around prostitutes and cabarets during the period known as the Estado Novo (1937-1945) in the city of Aracaju. The New State was featured as one of the most authoritarian periods in the history of Brazil, in which Vargas was trying to control the population. As a strategy for their government measures were met, named some intervenors. One of his main goals was the quest for modernization, civilization and hygiene of the bodies, provided mainly with the help of medical health officers at the time. Placed as obstacles to modernizing project, prostitutes and cabarets were often bombarded by the local press, being characterized negatively. However, although such surveillance and stereotypes about these women and built sites, realize that they have never ceased to exist and were seen as a “necessary evil”.

This paper examines theoretical and methodological aspects related to the writing of history in the Digital Age. It’s a sort of introduction on some issues and problems on the relationship between history and the Internet in the early years of the century (2001-2011). We highlight mainly problems concerning the use of historical sources and documents available in cyberspace. It’s especially about issues regarding the use of hypertext as a new way for a reference system more virtual than the classical footnotes system.