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TIL Netflix does DVDs
That’s how they started out. In 2007 I had the seven-at-a-time package because my wife and I would watch a movie a night. Shipping took 3-4 days, so by the time I got to number 7, I’d have only had it for 3 or four days before it went straight back into the mailbox.
It was a different time. As fast as things were starting to go, in retrospect it was all still pretty slow.
I used to use it in college! we rented probably 1 movie every 1 or 2 months ever, idk if it was even worth the subscription price, but it was a lot of fun. I think they already had the streaming service then, so I was using it for that too maybe? Not too sure tbh, but I def remember using it for dvd rentals.
And yeah it was so so so convenient, the envelope was its own return envelope because it was sticky in 2 places and opened super easily. I remember being really impressed by the engineering/design.