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Big Endian? is where you send/store the number 0x01020304 as "01 02 03 04". This was traditionally used for larger machines, and since larger machines had network connectivity, NetworkByteOrder has been traditionally BigEndian.

Humans are naturally BigEndian, we write numbers "1234" when we mean One thousand, two hundred and thirty four, not "4321".

Compare LittleEndian.