title: Where did endianness come from
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4752715/why-are-both-little-and-big-endian-in-use">Why are both little- and big-endian in use?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I am just wondering what is the history of endianness? I would have thought that the way that binary data was stored at lowest level would have long become standard yet clearly it has not. Why?</p>