[pwdisswordfishy]

> it’s easier to draw pictures as a matrix of bytes that are transmitted from left to right and top to bottom

This argument is pretty silly: visualizations can always be changed. For some time I have been thinking that hexdumps on little-endian systems ought to be written right-to-left: in fact, when I once decided to include such a right-to-left dumper in my own software, it took me very little time for me to get used to, and I immediately started regretting I don't have it available everywhere.