Starwave
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Starwave was a Seattle USA based software company, funded by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The company produced many original CD-ROM titles, including disks for Clint Eastwood, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. They were the original developers of Castle Infinity, an interesting multiplayer game released in 1996 that still has an active community, but Starwave's most lasting mark was in the area of Web content sites. They developed ESPN.com, ABCNEWS.com, and Mr. Showbiz.com among other groundbreaking sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s.
The company was sold to The Walt Disney Company in 1998, then in a complex transaction it was combined with Infoseek to form GO.com. Starwave continues to exist as a fully-owned subsidiary of Disney, although it has no separate identity.