When I searched on the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times it yielded no results. I noticed that the site only had information up until 1990, so surely the term was first used in these publications at some point after that.
As far as the scholarly sources, the term was first used in ProQuest in 1995 in an article in Information Today about how much the internet would be changing and improving in the coming years. On Project Muse the term was first used in 1995 in an article in the MIT press about "rachitecure" the authors net based newsletter. On JStor when I sorted by oldest the first result was 2012 in the sources for the article, which does not seem like an accurate representation of when it was first written about.
In all of the places I found the term the usage of the word was the same as we would use it today. Since the term is so new and specific it is unlikely that it would be used in a different way.
It's interesting to see the first time the word "website" was referenced was just two short years before the term "netflix" appeared. In just those two years the internet was able to evolve from having basic web pages to creating large online distributing websites.
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