So there was this absolute legend named Jonathan Swift who wrote "Gulliver's Travels" back in 1726. In the book, there's this ridiculous war between two groups over which end of an egg you should crack first - the big end or the little end. It was basically Swift roasting politicians for fighting over dumb stuff.
Fast forward to the 1970s-80s, and computer architects are like "yo, how should we order bytes in memory?" You've got two main options:
Big-endian: