Before the electronic era information was usually directly communicated and not recorded, much of the information you received was

Direct voice communication.

Explanation:

Electronics, compared to electrical appliances are low powered logical devices, which uses digital signals of 1s and 0s to represent voltage range. The evolution of these devices have promoted information technology from high quality digital signal transmission to recorded speech platform.

Speech signals could not be recorded before the electronic era, it was only disseminated from one person to another to converted to text for easy and uncorrupted information transfer.

well you didnt give us any options it looks like so im going to go with because cash cant be traced.

i'm pretty sure data is stored in a form