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MILNET

MILitary NETwork. This network was created in 1984 from parts of the original ARPANET. The military users wished to have an operational production network, while the research community wished to have a network on which to continue experimenting in networking. Therefore, the military users were placed on MILNET, the research users were placed on ARPANET, and the two networks were connected with mail bridges and gateways. Today, MILNET is one of the class A networks in the Internet.