Developed by Casey Rodarmor, he built Ordinals to give its users the ability to transfer individual Satoshis between each other by taking advantage of the Taproot upgrade, which can also store NFT data in Taproot script-path spend scripts.
I'm still learning about it by reading and rereading this blog,
https://read.pourteaux.xyz/p/illegitimate-bitcoin-transactionsn0nce, pooyah, and others who are technical/high IQ, please ELI-5 for the newbies and the plebs like me. Haha.
Plus what's everyone's opinions/thoughts about Ordinals?
Ordinals are being used for more than just NFT data.
Ordinals can store NFT data and bitcoin token data. There are several different bitcoin tokens in existence.