This article discusses the meaning of linguistics and the production of text written in virtual spaces. It is a documentary research, with bibliographic design, referring to the qualitative paradigm, of an analytical-interpretive character. The method used was hermeneutics, information collection techniques: documentary observation and analytical summary, instruments: tabs, electronic devices and analysis matrix; data analysis: Guba and Lincoln hermeneutic circle, subsequently, the data were categorized facilitating the theorization process. As final considerations it is proposed that codes have been incorporated that have impacted linguistics on the written production that takes place in virtual spaces such as internet, chat, facebook, among others. These modifications are evident highlighting that the use of vowels, accentuation, punctuation have been lost with a transformation of language in spaces that allow writing in this paradigm of information and communication technologies has been lost.