| Industry | Digital content |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1993 |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Fate | Acquired by The Walt Disney Company, 1998 |
| Successor | Walt Disney Internet Group |
| Headquarters | Bellevue, Washington, U.S. |
Key people | Paul Allen, Mike Slade, Patrick Naughton |
Starwave was a Seattle, Washington-based software and website company, founded in 1993 by Paul Allen,[1] co-founder of Microsoft and led by CEO Mike Slade.[2][3] The company produced original CD-ROM titles, including Muppets Inside, and titles for Clint Eastwood, Sting,[4] and Peter Gabriel. They were the original developers of Castle Infinity, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game for children, but Starwave's most lasting mark was in the area of web content sites. They developed ESPN.com, ABCNEWS.com, Outside Online, and Mr. Showbiz.com among other 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.
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