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by fouc
1728 days ago
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I think "bricked" as a term originated from flashing the firmware on mobile phones. If the firmware ended up in a non-recoverable state, the phone became as useful as a brick. It was theoretically possible to take physical intervention to pull the firmware chip out and flash it with an fpga programmer tool, but most people wouldn't have the equipment for that. |
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This feels a bit like the word "bug"; I'd be quite interested to know if it can be traced to its actual first use.
People associate it with phones because as I remember they were always being described as the size (and weight) of a brick, and that's when they were working.