How to bake a cake? How to draw a parabola? What to do when you’re bored? All of us have
probably asked ourselves this question before but something we all have in common is where
we turn to to find that answer. Youtube! A perfect place to share ideas with visual
representations. Except, how did that come to be? Who came up with the idea to have an
international video sharing website? Well in today’s episode we will be covering the history of
Youtube along with all the ups and downs and the amazing features of this incredible website.
This episode was researched and produced by Grade 12 student Sonali Balkaran for her CHY4U World History Course RST; where students had to explore a topic from 1950-Present that was part of Billy Joel's or Fallout Boy's "We Didn't Start the Fire" (1989) or (2024)
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