Desperately seeking old photos
Woodside is the latest town to get Arcadia Publishing's popular "Images of America" treatment. Thalia Lubin of Woodside and Bob Dougherty of La Honda are hard at work gathering information for the local history book, and they need more old photos of Woodside. Ms. Lubin, a member of the Woodside History Committee, is hoping residents will come forward with images of Woodside's past that can be used in the upcoming book.

"We just want to copy them and return them," she said. Anyone willing to haul out the old photo albums is invited to call Ms. Lubin at 851-4234.

Happy birthday, Internet
SRI International in Menlo Park is party to a birthday.
On Oct. 29, 1969, a student at the University of California, Los Angeles tried to log on to a computer 400 miles away at SRI, and lo -- which is as far as the student got with the word "login" before the system crashed -- the Internet was born, according to a report on the SRI Web site.

Those two characters were enough to establish a milestone in electronic communication. Many more have followed.

"By reliably connecting different kinds of computers to each other, the ARPANET took a crucial step toward the online world that links nearly a third of the world's population today," said Marc Weber, founding curator of the Computer History Museum's Internet History Program in Mountain View.

Your library needs you
Do you patronize the Atherton library? If so, the library staff wants to hear your opinion. A needs-assessment survey is under way for the branch library at 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane.

Carine Risley, the new Atherton library branch manager, said Anderson Brule Architects is conducting the study, which includes a focus group, interviews with "key informants," and an online poll.

Go to library survey.

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