however TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, etc are all still around. Those are the protocols.
Yes, but how often are you using gopher to read books, archie to find files, or do you finger your best friend to find out the latest happenings? For every legacy protocol still in use, there's just as many that are obsolete.
Fair.
Archie is not a protocol, it runs on top of Telnet. Telnet is very useful. Should we say Bitcoin is like Telnet for money?