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History of the Nine Planets, one of the original multimedia websites published on the Internet.

Created in 1994 by software developer and amateur astronomer Bill Arnett, The Nine Planets is a multimedia website containing information about our Solar System and beyond.

It was one of the first examples of a multimedia website when it first appeared online and has received over 100 million visitors. To this day, the site still receives up to 5 million visitors per year.

The Nine Planets contains encyclopedic information about the Solar System with a page for each of the major bodies illustrated with photographs, mostly sourced from NASA.