The Nine Planets

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The Nine Planets
Multimedia tour
languages English, translations into other languages ​​(including German) by third parties
editorial staff Bill Arnett
On-line October 13, 1994
https://nineplanets.org/

The website The Nine Planets (German: Die Nine Planets ) is a multimedia tour of the solar system created by Bill Arnett in English , which he made public on October 13, 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 bodies, and is mainly illustrated with photographs from NASA .

The nine planets on the tour are Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune, and Pluto . After the new classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union on August 24, 2006, Bill Arnett crossed out the “nine” in the title graphic with red pencil and added an “8” as a replacement, but otherwise left the name unchanged.

Due to the high number of visitors, the website has often been mirrored and translated elsewhere . There is a German translation by Christoph Högl, Helmut Fritsch and Michael Wapp called The Nine Planets . Further adaptations of the website are a version for children and as a Windows 95 program. The Nine Planets also received numerous awards, such as being in the top 100 websites of PC Magazine in 1995 and a Sci / Tech Web Award for astronomy and astrophysics from the popular science magazine Scientific American in 2001 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Arnett: What's New. In: The Nine Planets. Retrieved January 4, 2010 .
  2. ^ Bill Arnett: Introduction and FAQ. In: The Nine Planets. Retrieved January 4, 2010 .
  3. ^ Bill Arnett: Appendix C: Copyrights. In: The Nine Planets. Retrieved January 4, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Bill Arnett: Appendix B: Mirrors of The Nine Planets. In: The Nine Planets. Retrieved January 4, 2010 .
  5. ^ Bill Arnett: Kudos for My WWW Documents. In: The Nine Planets. Retrieved January 4, 2010 .
  6. ^ Sci / Tech Web Awards 2001 - Astronomy and Astrophysics. Scientific American , May 14, 2001, accessed January 4, 2010 .