Nasdaq Index: Then & Now
Drag the vertical slide left and right to compare how life has changed since 2000, the last time the popular index hit 5,000.
For starters, there were far fewer people using the Internet
Source: Internet World Stats
Also, Mark Zuckerberg was still in high school!
Source: Forbes
Cell phones have changed a lot too
The best-selling cell phone
Source: ZDNet
The people we look up to have changed
Source: Time Magazine
So has the makeup of the Nasdaq
Top 5 stocks of the index, ranked by market capitalization
Source: Nasdaq
Nasdaq companies are priced much more reasonably now
Source: Wolfram Alpha
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