Big Endian byte order data little endian The American Continent original inhabitants... are Indians. Here: ((*endian*)). The etymology is the people who eat the egg from a round edge, after Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." Naturally, the people who eat from a pointed edge are the (('Little' endian|Little Endian)). In the computer industry, it is one of the forms when CPU etc. arrange ((data|Data)). The networkers are said that they will like Big endian. See also "((byte order|Byte Order))."