Time flies when you’re having fun?
It seems like just yesterday I purchased my first DVD player, on steep discount, via an online auction in 1998. And, as a grad student on a tight budget, I’d swing by the local video rental shop to suggest which titles of the newly introduced format they should stock – like the Criterion Collection Silence of the Lambs. Just as I just missed Netflix’s original launch, having joined up sometime in 1999, I’m also a bit late on the fun 20th anniversary retrospective – that includes years of envelope designs, top rentals, and the like. It’s worth a browse.
Of course, not only has the digital media landscape shifted dramatically over the intervening years, so too has the Netflix business (and my home theater).
Not positive in my memory and he wouldn’t remember me even if accurate, but I seem to recall I introduced Vincent Pereira, of Kevin Smith’s film crew, onto Netflix back in the day.
Wow!! I had thought Netflix launched a little earlier than this. I didn’t realize I had signed up with Netflix during their first six months. I first signed up in February 1999.
I remember they had to force me onto their all you can rent plan. I was adamant about paying per rental, which is what they originally had. But once they forced me onto the all you can rent plan, I was pissed at myself for not switching sooner.
I paid about $600 for my first DVD player about that time. I guess I’m going on almost 20 years of having a Netflix subscription! :-(