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

Now its hard to say how exactly, because we dont have written records, but it was most likely accidental change. Someone tried to store milk in something and due to the existence of ideal bacterie the milk turned to yoghurt. There is a good chance it was somewhere in Turkey, after all the word yoghurt itself is of Turkic origin.