After 25 years, Netflix has mailed out its final DVDs - marking the end of the red envelope and the end of a pop culture era.
Long before streaming entered the scene and changed the pop culture landscape forever, the gateway to your favorite films & television series was the DVD. For the most part, the way you got those DVDs was to head out to either a Blockbuster or your local DVD store to rent them – assuming they were in. Unless you wanted to own a film or television series – butwere the prices to own insane back then.
Along with that video trip down memory lane, the streaming service also shared a timeline of some of its biggest DVD milestones over the past quarter century And here's a look at the marquee that was put up on Sunset Boulevard to mark the historic gate in pop culture history – composed of actual DVDs and Netflix red envelopes:But the red envelope remains an enduring symbol of our love of entertainment.
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