Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began 25 years ago when delivering discs through ...

Tech’s takeover of show business has turned everything into streaming. The only recourse is to focus on the physical.

Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company. Charles Krupa/AP In his book ...

1997: Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company.

1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company. In his book "That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and ...