What was MILNET?
MILNET (Military Network) was the acronym given to that part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) assigned to unclassified traffic from the United States Department of Defense. ARPANET was the name given to the computer network topography that would later become what is today known popularly as the internet. In 1983, the ARPANET and MILNET were split so that henceforth the former would be dedicated to academic research while the latter would be used for the transmission of U.S military data. The system that dictates the ascription of domain names to websites –- the domain name system (DNS) -– assigned the top level domain (TLD).mil for use by the U.S military. The provenance of today’s internet lies in what was in its early stages a research project that researchers entitled ARPANET; this network was originally a minute version of the massive interconnected network we know today as The Net. In 1969, the ARPANET network connected the universities of California, Sta
