The Internet was created by the United States government for universities to exchange knowledge. In 1994 Bill Clinton let private companies open up the Internet to the general public. What happened next is the wild Wild West. If you wanted to say hateful or racist things that you would never say if others knew, you would say them. If you had snapped a naked picture of your neighbor. You could put it online and anyone with a 56kb modem could look and there basically wasn’t anything anyone could do. Same deal with the URL address. Urls were basically given away, if someone else got there first they kept it. Things on the Internet are slowly changing as the Internet regulators tighten rules.

In modern America, many neighborhoods are organized as developments. Such developments often have rules and regulations that can be surprisingly restrictive.

Planned developments are all the rage these days in real estate. A developer doesn’t just build a bunch of homes any more. Now, they build an image of a particular type of living style. To maintain this image, the developments come with rules and regulations that can be very overbearing. If you fail to read them thoroughly before making an offer on a home, you may be in for a nasty surprise when you move in.