Nonsense, the www is not stuck in the 90's. Browsers adapt, compete and innovate. And err http is at 2.0. The fact that gopher didn't kick off does not rubbish the idea of common protocols in the first place.
Google already had the top two most popular websites in the world, so once Google Chrome also became the most popular web client, it was easy for them to develop a new communication protocol of their own, which everyone else has more or less begrudgingly agreed to call HTTP/2 and start deploying as well.
While Roberto Peon is one of the authors (and a core developer of the preceding SPDY protocol) saying that HTTP/2 is some Google invention is a bit of a punch in the face to the IETF and the two other authors who do not work at Google.