Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1997, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph tested a business idea to rent DVDs by mail. They did it by mailing themselves a DVD. It ...

CAROL STREAM, Ill. -- The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds.

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CAROL STREAM, ILL. • The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds.