Line-Talk: ascii data display on WWW

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

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Here are Washington's counties.  Actually, each of these contains a 
clickable pointer (not visible here):

                     __________________________________
                  .-.\          \           |   |  |  |
         _        | |_\----------|          |   |  \  |
        / \        ~| \|       /~|          |   /  |  |
        \  ~--______,~\|-------|  \   _  __ |  /   \__|
         \___________\ |      /    ~\/ ~~ _LI__|_  |  |
          \         __||------|    _|    | |     ~|   |
           \----|~~|  \|     /\_   |    /  |      |   |
            |   |  ~|~~|    |   ~\_\  /~   |______|___|
            |   |___\   ~-_-/\      ~|     |     |    |
            |     \  ~\     | \___   |   __|     |    |
            |~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|     ~--|_/\|-----|~ /~\ |
             |  _|_____ ____|        |   |   /~|~~\ /-|
             |_/_ |    |    |        |   |_-~   \  || \
                 ~~\  _|   _|________|     |_____|_||__\
                    \~ |   |        _|_/~~~
                     \ | /~~~~-_/~~~
                      ~~~
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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

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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

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Any suggestions, ideas (even requests) would be very much appreciated.

Ed Stephan <ste...@henson.cc.wwu.edu>

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