Sphere - A decentralized social network

Our history of communication has been amazing. Communication system has amazingly evolved with time. There was a time when you couldn't easily communicate with your friends and relatives living far away from you. You could only send them messages via a traveler who happened to be going there. Then came the portal system which made contact and communication in general easier. It was a huge step at that time. But today if you were told that you couldn't communicate with anyone except through writing down a letter and putting it into the post box for the postman to deliver it to the person you have written it for. And then you will have to wait for the person to respond to you in the same long procedure. You will feel yourself living in the stone age, right? Well that's because of adaptation of our skills with the fast moving world. We cannot afford to stay where we are. We have to move forward for the betterment of our lives and society at large. After the postal s...

We are living in an era experiencing the blockchain technology, technology that will revolutionise the way of our lives. It created the backbone of a new type of internet by allowing information to be distributed but not copied. Not all people around the world are aware of this technology. Blockchain was originally devised for Bitcoin, the digital currency. Apart from that, blockchain has other digital values too. You don't need to know how the blockchain technology works. However, a basic knowledge of blockchain technology shows us why it's considered revolutionary. Blockchain was defined by Don & Alex Tapscott as: “The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.” Blockchain is like an internet, plus that it has a built-in robustness. By storing blocks of information that are identical across its network, blockchain has no single poin...

What would be our lives like if we had no social networking? Would it be possible for the youth today to really enjoy the life they're living without the social networking websites? How necessary are these social networking sites for modern youth? The need of these websites can be known by the number of users using these websites, which is mind blowing. The number is enormously high. There are billions of people using these websites. But, what are these websites all about? Let's see how social media is explained and know what this is all about. > By 1979, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis from Duke University had created the Usenet, a worldwide discussion system that allowed Internet users to post public messages. Yet, the era of Social Media as we understand it today probably started about 20 years earlier, when Bruce and Susan Abelson founded ‘‘Open Diary,’’ an early social networking site that brought together online diary writers into one community. The term ‘‘weblog’...

Who would have thought a couple of hundred years before what world would be like?Communication and travel have turned this world into a global village. They have connected states, nations and continents. These evolutions in the technology and modern science have revolutionized life. The distances that were covered in days and months are now covered in minutes and hours. And communicating with people living outside your state was quite impossible and with those outside the country, it was a dream. Time changed and so did technology, now communicating with even those that are in different continents is just a mere work of fingers. Getting a contact of those who lived far used to take days and months, and sometimes years. Now with the introduction of internet our world has become a global village and communication has become easy, so easy that you can not just text them, not just talk to them, but even you can see them, living thousands of miles away from you, live in front of you. T...