Back in the mid 90's, I was working in a gold mine in the desert
We had no tv, radio was just sheep reports on shortwave, and we had one telephone for about 800 blokes. It was against this background when I found out the bloke I was sharing a house with had been given internet access. Now he owed me a favour, and with enough begging I was able to get him to reveal the password. Being a young bloke in my early 20's stuck out in the middle of nowhere with not a woman in sight, I immediately started looking at porn as fast as the 56k connection could stream.
Now, I had another mate who found out I had access, and again through begging and bribery he eventualy got the password off me. He wasn't so stingy, and soon had told a number of the other geos, surveyors and engineers.
A few weeks later the housemate who gave me the password was summoned to fly to head office to face a disciplinary panel. Apparently, all urls had been logged by the sysadmin. He was shown thick reams of paper with 1000s upon 1000s of porn urls and asked to explain himself. Luckily, he was able to point out that the only way he could have looked at that much porn was to have been sitting at his computer 24/7, furiously masterbating until raw, which given that he spent 12 hours a day underground seemed unlikely. While he said he might have given his password away, he didn't grass me or any others up, bless him. He did get permabanned from internet access, while I was granted it a few months later after making some bullshit claim that I needed it to research mineral types. However, never again did I make the error of looking at porn on the company internet. I took my porn the old fashioned way, with skin flick vhs's and jazz mags
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 16:45, 2 replies)

One phone, yet everyone had access to a network connection dialup? Or were a bunch of guys all circle wanking?
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Fri 19 Oct 2012, 12:29, closed)

the phone was a satellite phone, and cost 3 bucks a minute
not sure how they did the internet, but we had access over the network when we had the password
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 0:08, closed)