[pjc50]

Ethernet was invented in 1973 and the first 32-bit processors were available in 1979.

While you've got the time machine, can you fix it so that "network byte order" and Intel endianness are the same too?

[swiley]

Or rather keep Intel from munging the order their processors write bytes in.

[adrianratnapala]

What?

[drewg123]

The 32-bit Vax 11/780 was introduced in 1977 and IEEE 802.3 was not finalized until 1983. So they could/should have done something about it I think.

Come to think of it, the Vax was little endian (like Intel).