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.
MAR 06, 2015

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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