Big Endian, Little Endian

It's more computer science thingy than anything else.

Most of you (CS) people out there have heard about different endian rules when it comes down to handling individual bits of data. There are basically two rules:

• Little endian - LSB on lowest address (see wiki)
• Big endian - LSB on the highest address (see wiki)

There is also much less popular rule of (Middle endian).
Now one of the interesting things about this rules is where do they come from. And the answer is from inhabitants of island of Blefuscu from the book Gulliver's Travels (see wiki). It's not much, but I wanted to share this little secret with you all.