contrailkaryotype:

sparklenight:

contrailkaryotype reblogged this from you and added:

I’m so bad at operating Tumblr that I replied ‘PYEAH’ to this, when what I really mean is PLUG MAPS, YEAH.

Is ‘plug maps’ what they are called?  Because when I was looking for their name earlier, Google produced awesome things like this:

rather than awesome things like this:

I made the term up, so I just tried to search for what they’re really called (if they’re ‘really’ called anything: plug wiring diagrams) and found this wonderful thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die-Cut_Plug_Wiring_Diagram_Book

I’m just about to buy one.

Looks amazing.  I remember that the wire colours changed just as I was learning about them in GCSE Physics, 2006 and it felt like history was unfolding.

(Source: mpawson.demon.co.uk)