• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    late to streaming, but practically the first subscription based system to watch movies/tv online.

    First years of Netflix were the best, the product began degrading quite early on. but that was mostly companies realizing that instead of licensing their content on Netflix, they can make their own platforms.

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      6 hours ago

      I think people forget that there is also the problem of being “too early” where people or the technology isn’t ready yet. Netflix timed their entry perfectly.

      There are so many defunct websites or businesses that no one has ever heard of that were precursors to modern day services we view as conveniences.