When you look back on tech history, few companies have experienced the type of meteoric rise and dramatic fall that happened to Compaq.

The early success of Yahoo was meteoric. By 1996, the company went public, and its stock price immediately surged.

Few stories in business are as emblematic of technological disruption and strategic missteps as the rise of Netflix and fall of Blockbuster.

Pizza Hut made history in 1994 when it became the first company to offer online food ordering with a new concept it called PizzaNet.