http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt On the other hand, the Little-Endians have their view, which is different but also self-consistent. They believe that one should start with the narrow end of every word, and that low addresses are of lower order than high addresses. Therefore they put their words on paper as if they were written in Hebrew, like this: ...|---word2---|---word1---|---word0---|