[BizarroLand]

Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix in the early 2000's for $50,000,000.

I bet it spent a while regretting not making that purchase, but then again, if they had Netflix may have become a passing fad and never branched out into the online streaming market.

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/netflix-blockbuster-meeting...

[ghaff]

I had forgotten that. Yes. I suspect they’d have done the DVD by mail thing but then would have stagnated however many years later.

[thunky]

It blows my mind that Netflix is still mailing DVDs.

Not only that, but their DVD plan is far better then their streaming plan because it includes decent (not Netflix produced) movies.

[tvb]

> Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix in the early 2000's for $50,000,000.

Ah, an example of the Butterfly Effect: then we'd have a billion references to FAABG on the web instead of FAANG.

[sublinear]

I think it's highly unlikely Blockbuster was ever going to build and maintain a streaming service if they had purchased Netflix.

[BizarroLand]

Hopefully this doesn't sound rude but that's what I just said