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Was there a reason for ordering a large network?

It seems that most modern (as in the last 20 years) processors used a small amount of endian, or at least preferred it (if bi-endian). Was there a reason they made big-endian a one-stop order for all network protocols? Is there any actual advantage to it, except that it is easier to use for a large number of processors?

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The big endian was probably chosen because most computers of that era (what, the end of the 1960s?) Used it.

How could they predict the popularity of the 80x86 family and its use of the little Entian so many years later?

Wikipedia:

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