It was never about concurrency but it was way more about resilience against connection drops. You all know how unreliable dialup was of someone happened to touch a phone or a storm made the lines a bit noisy. Having a transfer fail halfway through, before browsers/oses had some concept of resuming partial downloads, was one of THE most infuriating things.

Fuck, I'm old.

I remember downloads having 40+ rar files so you didn't need to restart the entire download.

Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰

Damn, you guys are old. I couldn't tell this apart from some latin inscriptions in Pompeii

I remember figuring out how to boot my computer late at night to resume downloads then shut down before my dad woke up in the morning.

Who out here still using jdownloader?

Getright was my bae in the dial-up days. Saved so many large anime downloads when someone called and broke the connection due to call waiting. Or when the speeds tapered off over the hours and I had to re-dial my ISP.

Made the content I downloaded feel more special and kept my focus more than all this instant gratification nowadays.

Download Accelerator Plus.

I don't remember ever needing one for concurrent downloads, just to resume one if the connection was lost or something happened. But I also don't remember downloading anything prior to being on Windows 95. 🤷‍♂️

I remember downloading like 20-30 parts of a single thing and having the task bar at the bottom just be full of download windows.

I still use a download manager for the bigger files. Just to be safe.

I remember pulling an all-nighter to make sure my Internet stayed connected and stable long enough to download Netscape Navigator. I think it was like 18MB. Previous attempts failed, and I didn't know of any download managers back then

FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒

You don't now?? I think concurrency is still unavailable in modern browsers by default