And by sheer coincidence, I very recently learnt on a HN linked article on big-endian and little-endianness that these terms come from Gulliver's Travels by Jon

And by sheer coincidence, I very recently learnt on a HN linked article on big-endian and little-endianness that these terms come from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift [0], where Lilliput and Blefuscu wage war over which end should be cracked first when eating a hard-boiled egg: > The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions ... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu. This seems like a perfect fictional example of the Narcissism of Small Differences, published more than a century before the birth of Sigmund Freud! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#Satirical_interpretations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#Satirica... PS: It's also a great opportunity for us to start a feud as to who should be credited with the idea, whether Freud or Swift. I declare myself Swiftian! :-D