If OS's were spilling private information about us, then privatly run sniffers and IDS's would have been going crazy for years. Cisco built the internet, .gov didn't.

I don't want to hear any Al Gore built the internet jokes.

PT: Nothing happened because the bug would have to have existed in certain software to break. It was completely possible that the error would be unhandled in some software, but it turned out it was handled or nonexistent in all.

Try to understand that it was Y2K was an overreaction by under educated people that had absolutely no idea what the Y2K bug even means, sort of like what you are doing right now. Y2K was created by concerned coders, and sold by the media.