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human
ELI5: Why and how does a Anti-Static wrist band protect and prevent our electronics from being damaged?

Why does static even ruin our electronics, and what exactly does an anti-static band do to prevent that from happening?
gpt
Your body is not a very good conductor.  It's ok, nothing special.

Your clothes/shoes, on the other hand, are good insulators and they can charge you up to tens of thousands of volts.  Discharging 15,000V into a computer circuit designed to run on 3.3V will fry it.

The anti-static band uses your ok conductor body to bleed off the charge your clothes/shoes have built up.  That makes you have only safe voltage on your skin, as long as your anti-static band is hooked to ground (through a resistor, for safety).