"netflix used to come in the mail" probably does sound like bullshit you& #39;ve made up to fuck with them to zoomers tbh
it fills that gap were most people had a TV or a PC that could play DVDs, when malls and high streets were dying and taking arcade and video rentals with them, but live streamed video that didn& #39;t look like CCTV was something most people couldn& #39;t have even if they wanted it
if you got a disk in the post it was either your netflix order or an AOL free trial for dialup
fun fact: AOL made over a billion CDROMs and sent them out as junk mail, so basically all of them are in landfills now since you can& #39;t recycle the fuckers