When Netflix began in 1997, it wasn’t the streaming behemoth it is now. No one had created Stranger Things or Wednesday or Bridgerton. Netflix was the couch potato’s alternative to Blockbuster — instead of driving down to the store to rent a DVD, which would hopefully be in stock, you could pick it from Netflix’s library ahead of time and have it delivered directly to your doorstep.

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