---
title: "Witness the Launch of Ethereum: ‘the World Computer’"
description: "Ethereum has launched. The project's leaders want to see what we can build on it."
date: "2015-07-30"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Nia Brown"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nia_brown"
url: "https://futurism.com/witness-the-launch-of-ethereum-the-world-computer"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
tags:
  - "communications"
---

# Witness the Launch of Ethereum: ‘the World Computer’

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/universe-backgrounds-91.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/universe-backgrounds-91.jpg" target="\_blank"\>Ethereum\</a\>\</em\>*

It's a 'web without servers', a decentralized global network project that wants to change the future of the Internet. Now, with the first live [release](<https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/30/ethereum-launches/>) and countless numbers of people installing it, Ethereum has arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j23HnORQXvs

"The vision of a censorship-proof ‘world computer’ that anyone can program, paying exclusively for what they use and nothing more, is now a reality." says Stephan Tual, CCO of the company.

The project utilizes [block chain](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_(database)>) technology and promises to let users build applications without third-party interference.