Eamonn O Brien
Just dumbing it down bit by bit as I try to grasp it...
Distributed applications is software running on a network of computers. Ethereum gives programmers a platform (A platform being an "underlying computer system") to build distributed applications on...
When I look up "underlying computer system" there aren't many results... I'm picturing a massive computer somewhere that people will have to use to build software on...
This is how I'm picturing it. I tend to "picture" everything... This may be a painful to look at for the crew(s) :/