The high tech behind Netflix’s old-school DVD service
by Janko Roettgers from The Verge - All Posts on (#6F1ZR)
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Over the last 25 years, Netflix shipped more than 5 billion DVDs to millions of subscribers. The disc-by-mail service, which is shutting down this Friday, owed its success to lots of behind-the-scenes innovation.