Alan Kay wrote:

> Now, let's check the next part of this important knowledge. Who was it 
> that came up with the Swiftian terms "big- and little- endian" to apply 
> to computers? And roughly when?

http://www.netrino.com/Publications/Glossary/Endianness.html

"A few hundred years later, in 1981, Danny Cohen applied the terms and 
the satire to our current situation in IEEE Computer (vol. 14, no. 10)."

Do I win an egg?

-Jack