The history of Netflix: the DVD rental company that changed the world

The streaming market has become an increasingly crowded place in recent years, but it wasn’t always such a packed space. Netflix was one of the first streaming services to really make an impact on mainstream users. Netflix also played a pivotal role in the cord-cutting movement of the late 2000s. So when did Netflix start and how did it become the giant it is today?

Let’s take a closer look at Netflix’s history and how a simple mail-order video service disrupted the way we watched movies and television forever.

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