Starwave was a Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

 based software and website company, founded in 1993 by Paul Allen

Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates...

, co-founder of Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

. The company produced many original CD-ROM titles, including disks for Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

, Sting, and Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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. They were the original developers of Castle Infinity

Castle Infinity

Castle Infinity is a freeware MMOG for Microsoft Windows developed by Castle Infinity, LLC, an American non-profit organization.The official language of the characters in Castle Infinity is a modification of Esperanto....

, a multiplayer game released in 1996 that is still in production as of 2011 by a group of volunteers, but Starwave's most lasting mark was in the area of Web content sites. They developed ESPN.com

ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3.com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's...

, ABCNEWS.com, Outside Online, and Mr. Showbiz.com among other groundbreaking sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s. Starwave also developed the first site and publishing system for Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com.

The company merged with Infoseek and was later sold to The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

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 in 1998. The new entity, Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) developed the Go.com

Go.com

Go.com is a web portal first launched by Jeff Gold, and now operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is a part of The Walt Disney Company. The portal includes content from ABC News, ESPN, and FamilyFun.com, all of which are associated with Disney and are hosted under a .go.com name...

 portal.

In 2004, Disney re-activated the Starwave identity as Starwave Mobile, which publishes casual game

Casual game

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s for mobile phones.

External links

• http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/05/starwave.html October
• http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/26feature.html
• http://www.starwavers.com List of Former Starwave Employees