"netflix used to come in the mail" probably does sound like bullshit you'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't look like CCTV was something most people couldn'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't recycle the fuckers

I got a live one