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There already is a standard for PCs that it in use by multiple vendors, except they usually only implement it for plugs and sockets, not the actual cables.

video = dark blue
audio = green
mouse = yellow?
keyboard = purple

But standardizing goes out the door when you start using a standard USB connection for everything.

I expect the first attempt would be considered unfairly discriminatory against colourblind users, and then patterned and textured wires would become mandatory. Perhaps manufacturers don't want to give standards bodies any ideas. ;-)

Agreed with Jonathan. Best to get resigned to the spaghetti. The real problem is the damned dust-mice.

How about going one better than a color code and just labeling (with a word or a diagram) the business end of each plug?

After years of climbing under computer lab tables and hundreds of student or teacher computers to clear up that "spaghetti" I'd really rather have clear cables. That is, when will the day come when the cables can finally just go away? WILL it come or are we stuck with having to color code them?

The next phase is wireless - it's been a long time coming.