Greater than sixteen years after pivoting to streaming, Netflix is saying goodbye to its mail-order DVD enterprise. The corporate plans to shutter the service by the tip of September, it announced on Tuesday.

Ah, the place has the time gone?

Netflix debuted greater than 25 years in the past, and at first it each rented and bought DVDs on-line (by way of a now-ancient-looking web site). The corporate may’ve light to irrelevance way back had it not switched focus to streaming in 2007.

About 4 years later, amid backlash over deliberate value hikes, Netflix said it would spin off its mail-order arm right into a separate enterprise, which it (bizarrely) named “Qwikster.” Then, the corporate changed its mind. The spinoff plan mirrored simply how far Netflix had include its streaming enterprise. Nevertheless, its execution of this concept was, frankly, fairly embarrassing.

In a eulogy on its weblog, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos pointed to the dwindling income it earns by way of mailed-order DVDs, and mentioned: “To everybody who ever added a DVD to their queue or waited by the mailbox for a crimson envelope to reach: thanks.”

Sarandos added, “we wish to exit on a excessive, and shall be transport our closing discs on September 29, 2023.”

Netflix’s DVD rental income slipped to $100 million in 2022, down from the $200 million or so the corporate earned the prior 12 months. Netflix’s DVD library featured greater than 100,000 titles — vastly greater than what the corporate presents by way of streaming within the U.S., per aggregator JustWatch.