Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Lost Digital Lists from Li.st Platform
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thecsw
Properly proved. Has structure, has flavour, has a point.
Summary
This article documents the recovery process of Anthony Bourdain's lost digital lists from the platform Li.st. The author describes their technical approach to retrieving these lists from web archives like Common Crawl, preserving Bourdain's original writing style and formatting. The content focuses on the technical recovery process while emphasizing the authenticity of Bourdain's voice and the non-AI nature of the content recovery work.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledAny and all emphasis, missing punctuation, cool grammar is all by Anthony Bourdain.
The only modifications I have made is to the layout, to represent li.st as closely as possible with no changes to the content.
Recovering what we lost
From Greg's page, let's go and try each entry one by one, I'll put the table of what I wasn't able to find in Common Crawl, but I would assume exists elsewhere
And no, none of this above has been written by AI, only the code since I don't really care about warcio encoding or writing the same python requests method
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