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In March 2000, tech companies represented 35% of the S&P 500 by market cap.

Cisco was briefly the largest company in the world, with a market cap similar to Facebook today (taking inflation into account its market cap was similar to Amazon today).

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2000/03/20/story...

These were the ten largest companies in the S&P 500 in January 2000: Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, AOL, Oracle, Dell, Sun, Qualcomm, and HP.



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