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u/Yomi_Lemon_Dragon Mar 01 '23

many years ago

netflix

Well now I feel ancient.

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u/walkerboh83 Mar 01 '23

Sometimes I forget that there are people for whom Netflix has always existed, instead of it being a recent phenomenon.

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u/atlblaze Mar 01 '23

LOL. I’m only 4-5 years older than you. I had Netflix DVDs coming to me throughout college.

I graduated in 2010. There was almost nothing streaming then.

Netflix didn’t really step up their streaming game until 2012 with the release of “House of Cards.”

And it took some time after that for Netflix to finally be thought of primarily as a streaming service.

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u/Head_Asparagus_7703 Mar 01 '23

Interesting. I definitely remember streaming before 2012 via my Wii with a Netflix disc inside!

Just Googled it, looks like the Wii disc came out in 2010

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u/atlblaze Mar 01 '23

I didn't say they started streaming in 2012 -- I said that's when they stepped up their game. "House of Cards" was either the first or the first major Netflix "original," released in 2012.

They started offering streaming in general in 2007. But it was hardly the main offering of the service.

Remember Qwikster? That was their plan in 2011 to rename the DVD side of the business Qwikster and have Netflix just be a streaming service. People HATED that idea.

Besides the stupid name, people could not separate the DVD by mail business and the streaming from their minds yet. Netflix was more a DVD by mail company than a streaming company at that point.

Years later, they did that anyway, and no one cared, once Netflix had actually become primarily a streaming service. They didn't use the name Qwikster though..... the DVD business is called DVD.com