They do ultimately have an order if transmitted over a network!
They do if transmitted over a serial port. But today's networks encode whole bytes or more into the symbols actually sent over the wire/air, so there's not really any way to point out on an oscilloscope trace where particular bits out of a byte are sent in a specific order.
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I seem to recall discussion of this in the RFC. They do ultimately have an order if transmitted over a network!
But most of us are used to getting them a byte at a time through the memory interface so we are ignorant of this.
They do if transmitted over a serial port. But today's networks encode whole bytes or more into the symbols actually sent over the wire/air, so there's not really any way to point out on an oscilloscope trace where particular bits out of a byte are sent in a specific order.
Wow! I didn’t know that