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Netflix

Netflix, founded August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, began as DVD rental-by-mail, launched streaming in 2007, and now streams to over 325 million members in 190+ countries with ads plans and originals.

Netflix and chill

Netflix and chill is internet slang meaning either literally watching Netflix and relaxing or, as a euphemism, inviting someone over for sex. First recorded on Twitter in 2009, it became a sexual innuendo via Black Twitter in 2014 and a major 2015 meme.

Netflix Animation

Netflix Animation: Netflix's animation arm, founded 2018, with Netflix Animation Studios in Burbank, Vancouver, and Sydney. Known for Klaus, The Sea Beast, and Oscar-winning KPop Demon Hunters, plus anime deals with MAPPA and WIT Studio.

Netflix Is a Joke Festival

Netflix Is a Joke Festival (NIAJ Fest), Netflix and Live Nation's biennial Los Angeles comedy festival; debuted 2022 after a 2020 COVID cancellation, growing to 475+ shows by 2026, with no festival passes and select shows taped or streamed live.

Netflix Presents: The Characters

Netflix Presents: The Characters (2016) is a Netflix sketch comedy anthology in which eight comedians, including Lauren Lapkus, Tim Robinson, and Kate Berlant, each write and star in their own 30-minute episode; one season of eight episodes, TV-MA.

Netflix Prize

The Netflix Prize was a machine learning competition run by Netflix from 2006 to 2009, awarding $1 million for improving its movie recommendation algorithm by 10 percent.

Netflix, Inc.

Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), founded 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a DVD-by-mail service, is a streaming entertainment company with 325 million subscribers, originals, ads, games, and $51.1B 2026 revenue guidance.

Netflix原创影集列表

Netflix原创影集列表 (List of Netflix original series): catalog of series branded Netflix Originals, from House of Cards (2013) and Orange Is the New Black to Squid Game; covers the four original types, regional rights gaps, Korean originals, and renewal and cancellation tracking.

NetFlow

NetFlow is a Cisco network protocol that groups packets passing through a router into flows and exports traffic statistics for monitoring, planning, and security analysis.

Netgear

Netgear, legally NETGEAR, Inc., is an American networking-hardware company incorporated in Delaware in 1996 that sells Nighthawk routers and Orbi mesh Wi-Fi systems to homes and businesses.

NetHack

NetHack: single-player roguelike dungeon crawler, fork of Hack, first released 28 July 1987; goal is retrieving the Amulet of Yendor. Maintained by the volunteer DevTeam; NetHack 5.0.0 released May 2, 2026 with over 3100 changes.

NetHack Learning Environment

The NetHack Learning Environment is a reinforcement learning benchmark wrapping the roguelike game NetHack, built at Facebook AI Research and released in June 2020 to test long-horizon planning.

Nether Denton Roman fort

Nether Denton Roman fort, Cumberland, England: an unexcavated late first/early second century AD Stanegate frontier fort on the River Irthing, with a vicus occupied after the fort was abandoned when Hadrian's Wall opened in AD 122.

Netheravon

Netheravon, a village and parish in the Avon valley on eastern Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England; Domesday estate, Roman villa, Beaufort sporting estate, and military airfield and parachute centre.

Netherland Dwarf rabbit

Netherland Dwarf rabbit: a fancy breed of very small pet rabbit, ideal adult weight 0.907 kg, erect 5 cm ears, round broad skull; among the most common UK pet rabbit breeds.

Netherland, Sewell & Associates

Netherland, Sewell & Associates is an independent petroleum consulting firm founded in 1961 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that evaluates and audits oil and gas reserves for companies, financial institutions, and government agencies.

Netherlandish Proverbs

Netherlandish Proverbs, also called Flemish Proverbs or The Topsy Turvy World, is an oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, made in 1559, that literally illustrates more than 100 Dutch proverbs.

Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland) is a western European country in the Rhine-Meuse delta, with 18.15 million people (2026), 30% of land below sea level, 1.8% GDP growth in 2025, and a Delta Programme against flooding.

Netherlands Antillean guilder

The Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG, NAf) was the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, pegged to the US dollar at 1.79 since 1971 and replaced by the Caribbean guilder in 2025.

Netherlands Antilles

Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen), Caribbean federation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1954–2010; five islands after Aruba's 1986 exit; dissolved 10 October 2010 into Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the BES special municipalities.

Netherlands Armed Forces

Netherlands Armed Forces (Nederlandse krijgsmacht): the Dutch military under the Ministry of Defence, with four services (Navy, Army, Air and Space Force, Marechaussee), all-volunteer since conscription call-ups were suspended in 1997, spending about €26 billion in 2025 and deploying 440 personnel abroad.

Netherlands at the Cricket World Cup

The Netherlands men's cricket team is an associate nation that has played five ODI Cricket World Cups, from 1996 to 2023, with upset wins over South Africa and Bangladesh in 2023.

Netherlands in World War II

Netherlands in World War II: German invasion 10 May 1940, occupation under Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart, the February Strike, deportation of about 107,000 Jews, the 1944-45 Hunger Winter, and liberation on 5 May 1945.

Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael

Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael (Instituut Clingendael): independent Dutch think tank and diplomatic academy in The Hague; research, diplomat training (781 diplomats, 140 countries in 2024), and public platform including the Clingendael Spectator.

Netherlands national baseball team

Team Kingdom of the Netherlands is the Dutch national baseball squad run by the KNBSB, drawing players from the Netherlands, Aruba and Curaçao; it won the 2011 Baseball World Cup, reached two WBC semifinals, and holds 24-25 European titles.

Netherlands national cricket team

Netherlands national cricket team (KNCB), ICC Associate side; first match 1881, four ODI World Cups, beat England at 2009 T20 World Cup and South Africa at 2023 World Cup.

Netherlands national football team

Netherlands national football team (Oranje), the Dutch men's team run by the KNVB since 1905. Three-time World Cup runners-up (1974, 1978, 2010), Euro 1988 champions, eliminated at the 2026 World Cup round of 32 by Morocco; coach Xavi.

Netherlands women's cricket team in Thailand in 2022–23

Netherlands women's cricket team in Thailand in 2022–23: Dutch women's tour of Chiang Mai, 20 November–3 December 2022, four ODIs and four T20Is; Thailand won the ODIs 4–0 and the T20Is 3–1.

Netherlands women's national football team

Netherlands women's national football team (OranjeLeeuwinnen), KNVB-run senior women's side; UEFA Women's EURO 2017 winners and 2019 World Cup runners-up; first major tournament in 2009, coached since 2025 by Arjan Veurink.

NetherRealm Studios

NetherRealm Studios (NRS), Chicago-based Warner Bros. Games studio founded 2010 from Midway's bankrupt Chicago team, led by Ed Boon; maker of Mortal Kombat (2011, X, 11, 1) and Injustice games, 80M+ MK sales, 2024 mobile layoffs.