The root of the conflict lies much deeper than that. It is the question of which bit should travel first, the bit from the little end of the word,

The root of the conflict lies much deeper than that. It is the question of which bit should travel first, the bit from the little end of the word, or the bit from the big end of the word? The followers of the former approach are called the Little-Endians, and the followers of the latter are called the Big-Endians. The details of the holy war between the Little-Endians and the Big-Endians are documented in [6] and described, in brief, in the Appendix. I recommend that you read it at this point. * Danny Cohen, IEN 137 (1 April 1980), https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt