X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,3ef4027b85b173f5,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-01 07:54:00 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: stephan@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Ed Stephan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Line-Talk: ascii data display on WWW Date: 1 Dec 1994 09:56:31 -0600 Organization: Western Washington University Lines: 102 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <3bkrnf$5p0@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com The WWW site for our Demographic Research Laboratory here at Western Washington University is currently limited to text only (lynx) preparation. Until ethernet arrives, that means we're limited to ASCII art graphic presentations. Here are some that I have put in so far. Some parts which may not make much sense are actually pointers to other web sites. To see how they work you'd have to access our site. At your prompt, type lynx http://www.wwu.edu/~stephan In this first one -- "where we are" -- many of the words are actually clickable pointers to other websites and information sources. Vancouver BC CANADA BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON *________________________ Latitude...........48 45 35 N San Juan Is.->\* BELLINGHAM | Longitude.........122 29 13 W _ Oo\ <- Mt. Baker | Elevation.............60 feet |'"--==__o| : | 1990 Population........52,278 \Olympic || : Spokane | Whatcom County........127,780 \ Mts. ][* Seattle *| Vancouver (54 mi).....471,844 \ U :<- Mt. Rainier | Seattle (88 mi).......516,259 | * Olympia | Washington State....4,866,692 | : | selected demographic profiles \__ :<- Cascade Range | Whatcom Co, Washington, USA \__ : _________| \ _:________/" WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY weather *'" Estab 1893, University 1976 Vancouver Portland OR Students...............10,598 Seattle Faculty (FTE).............427 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are Washington's counties. Actually, each of these contains a clickable pointer (not visible here): __________________________________ .-.\ \ | | | | _ | |_\----------| | | \ | / \ ~| \| /~| | / | | \ ~--______,~\|-------| \ _ __ | / \__| \___________\ | / ~\/ ~~ _LI__|_ | | \ __||------| _| | | ~| | \----|~~| \| /\_ | / | | | | | ~|~~| | ~\_\ /~ |______|___| | |___\ ~-_-/\ ~| | | | | \ ~\ | \___ | __| | | |~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~| ~--|_/\|-----|~ /~\ | | _|_____ ____| | | /~|~~\ /-| |_/_ | | | | |_-~ \ || \ ~~\ _| _|________| |_____|_||__\ \~ | | _|_/~~~ \ | /~~~~-_/~~~ ~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This chart is designed to suggest the growth in the World's population. "the data" in the lower right corner takes you to the actual data used to generate the chart (so you make a neater, non-ascii one on your spreadsheet). Billions|-6 <- 1997 GLOBAL POPULATION | 11 yrs |-5 <- 1986 "Viewed in the long run, earth's population | 12 yrs has been like a long, thin powder fuse that /|-4 <- 1974 burns slowly and haltingly until it finally || 15 yrs reaches the charge and explodes." ||-3 <- 1959 Kingsley Davis (1945) || 34 yrs ||-2 <- 1925 || 124 yrs 170 mil / |-1 <- 1801 4 million 5 million ___/ | --|------------------|----------------~|------|-0 10000 5000 BC|AC 2000 the data ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This one shows the number of babies born each year in the United States, from 1910 through 1990. Again, "the data" is a pointer to actual numbers for spreadsheet manipulation. |U.S. Births /\_ |(millions) / |\ / 4 -| | | \ /| | / | | / | | / | \ _ / | | ]\/| | \/| / Y | | | | | |\ /| | | | | | | ~v/ | | 3 -| /-_ /\_ /\| | | | | | |/ Y| Y\ | | | | | | | | \ | | | | | | | | \ / | | | | | | | |\,__i| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 -|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----| 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 the data ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any suggestions, ideas (even requests) would be very much appreciated. Ed Stephan