The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks.

Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.

Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. The Internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The internet has reshaped and redefined most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols, to serve billions of users worldwide. Read the following text and do the comprehension questions

Web feeds