Netflix turns 20…

(via Quartz) Moviegoers once devoted substantial chunks of their Friday evenings to perusing the aisles of video stores. You’d go in with one movie in mind, but the latest releases had been picked over.  That was before April 14, 1998, when a small startup launched a website called Netflix.com. Instead of physically going to the video store, you could browse Netflix, rent a movie for a few bucks apiece plus shipping and two to three business days later, a red envelope with a DVD would arrive in your mailbox.