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) Sources Used for this Episode: Greeves, Scott, and Mustafa Oz. "YouTube in higher education: comparing student and instructor perceptions and practices." Edited by Jean-Pierre Thibaut. Frontiers. Last modified January 7, 2024. Accessed May 26, 2025. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1330405/full. "Hate speech policy." Google. Accessed May 20, 2025. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801939?hl=en&ref_topic=9282436. "History of YouTube – How it All Began & Its Rise." Vdocipher. Last modified May 24, 2024. Accessed May 16, 2025. https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/history-of-youtube/. Milmo, Dan. "'Britain's most racist YouTuber' has channel terminated." The Guardian. Last modified September 1, 2021. Accessed May 16, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/01/britains-most-racist-youtuber-has- channel-terminated. "The 20 Best Educational YouTube Channels in 2025!" Amberblog. Last modified April 21, 2025. Accessed May 26, 2025. https://amberstudent.com/blog/post/top-10-educational- youtube-channels#17-cgp-grey. VidIQ. Accessed May 16, 2025. https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/top/100/. "YouTube and Education: Leveraging the Platform for Learning Beyond the Classroom." Lords University. Accessed May 26, 2025. https://www.lordsuni.edu.in/blog/youtube-and- education