From TCP/IP Standards to a Literal Wiki

Description

A square two-tier Wojak comparison is headed "PROTOCOLS THEN" and shows four muscular, confident figures labeled "TCP/IP," "DHCP," "HTTP," and "TLS." The lower heading says "PROTOCOLS NOW" above four deliberately crude or misshapen faces labeled "MCP," "A2A," "SKILLS.MD," and "A LITERAL WIKI." The contrast elevates mature internet protocols—defined through precise wire formats, state machines, interoperability work, and long-lived standards—over the newer agent ecosystem's mixture of Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent, Markdown instruction files, and informal documentation. The joke criticizes the inflation of the word "protocol" when some modern coordination mechanisms are closer to conventions that probabilistic models are expected to interpret than rigorously enforced network contracts.