Factbox - Nasdaq surpasses peak close after 15 years: then and now

(Reuters) - Fifteen years and 31 trading days since the dot.com bubble peaked on March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq composite index <.IXIC> has closed at 5056.06, finally beating its previous record close of 5,048.62. Back then many of us were watching reality TV shows like "Survivor" and bidding up stocks of companies with no earnings. These days, we are less focussed on reality shows and more focussed on reality - keeping tabs on dividends and price-earnings ratios, for example. A lot has changed - Apple Inc , now the most highly valued U.S. public company, had a meager $4.49 share price and certainly was not on Wall Street's hot list. Facebook did not exist yet. Here's a look at the Nasdaq, then and now. (Reporting by Sinead Carew, Chuck Mikolajczak and Lisa Richwine; Editing by Linda Stern)