The Nine Planets

The site The Nine Planets ( German: The Nine Planets ) is a created by Bill Arnett on English Multimedia Tour of the Solar System, which was made ​​by him publicly on 13 October 1994. It is thus one of the first examples of multimedia content on the World Wide Web. The Nine Planets includes encyclopedic information about the solar system, each with a separate page for the larger body and is mainly illustrated with photographs from NASA.

The nine planets of the tour are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. According to the new classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union on August 24, 2006, Bill Arnett underlined in the title graphic in red pencil the "Nine" and added as a substitute an "8" added, kept its name but is otherwise the same.

Due to their high number of visitors the site was often mirrored elsewhere and translated. So there is a planet called The Nine German translation of Christoph Högl, Helmut Fritsch and Michael Wappingers Falls. Other adaptations of the site are a children's version and as a Windows 95 program. The Nine Planets was beside numerous awards, such as 1995, the inclusion in the Top 100 Sites of PC Magazine and a 2001 Sci / Tech Web Award for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the popular science magazine Scientific American.