A long, long time ago, before you could stream Hamilton, before anybody had heard of Tiger

King or Love is blind, way before this whole pandemic thing started, I know it's hard

to imagine, but before all that, there was a place you had to physically go to rent

what you wanted to watch.

Imagine the perfect video store.

It would have a great size, right?

Right, over 10,000 videos.

For most of us, that place was Blockbuster.

Welcome to Blockbuster Video!

It's popping up all over the country.

Blockbuster was the end-all's be-all for movies.

There was no other competitor that could tap it.

If you were a kid in the 90s or early odds, chances are you were at a blockbuster on a

Friday night, with your friend trying to figure out what movie to watch.

But it's peak, the rental chain had thousands of stores globally, and it earned billions

of dollars in revenue.

But that all kind of came to an end when Netflix came along.

A competitor without your typical brick and mortar store that was suddenly mailing DVDs

to your house, and eventually streaming movies on your laptop.

And well, we all know how that turned out for Blockbuster.

To take away at least that Netflix took from it was that they had to focus on one little

thing.

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