Not even close to the same concept.

Using your analogy, it would be like a pumping gas, without the fancy little thing "auto-fill" handle, that lets me go inside and take a piss while my gas is filling up.

Not sure when they invented those things in gas stations, but they're pretty common now.

I shouldn't have to stand by my car while pumping my gas, and shouldn't have to sit around my PC trying to login to a server.