Netflix Has Shipped Its Final DVD! What Was It? (And What John Stamos Movie Is John Stamos Holding Onto?)

Twenty-five years (...and a few months) after the launch of its iconic DVDs-by-mail business, Netflix shipped out its final little red sleeve on Friday.

The first DVD mailed out by Netflix back in April 1998 was Beetlejuice; the last one to go out was a copy of True Grit, the 2010 Western directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

Netflix's DVD business was a robust one through 2006. And I'm sure scores of you remember it well. In 2007, Netflix began offering "video on demand" via the Internet — aka streaming. And the rest, as they say, is buffering history.

"Today, after 25 years, we ship our last DVD," Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos shared on Friday via Instagram, along with photos of the DVD assembly line and such. "It was a huge honor to join the incredible DVD team in Fremont this week to thank them for being a part something that changed people's lives.

"Those iconic red envelopes were so loved that we shipped more than 5 billion of them to cities and towns, big and small that otherwise would have had no access to the variety of films and television shows we made available," Sarandos added. "Thank you to all of our members and DVD employees for 25 history making years!"

In response to Sarandos' IG, Mindy Kaling quipped, "Nooooo! I once shot a scene on The Office where my character is authoritatively explaining the Netflix DVD mail in system to Ryan. Now it's a cultural artifact!!! I'm old!"

Fellow TV vet John Stamos, meanwhile, let slip that he still has a handful of discs left to return.. or not. (Netflix told any such "squatters" back in August, "Please enjoy them for as long as you like! If you do choose to return the disc, we will continue to accept returns until October 27.")

"I still have three I haven't returned yet," Stamos commented. "Vegas Vacation, Snakes on a Plane and Never Too Young to Die starring a young John Stamos and Gene Simons [sic]."