How was the first yogurt made?

Question

I went on a spiral of homemade yogurt videos. But what I noticed was the common step in all of these videos is to add a dollop of existing yogurt to inoculate the new one. But how was the original yogurt made? Please explain. Thank you!

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Answer 1

WARNING GROSS:

You can take a piece of partially digested food (poop) from the animal’s intestine and use it to inoculate your milk in order to make cheese/yogurt.

But people don’t have giant herbivores living in the city so they have to introduce the starter culture a different way.