Your first program ever

What was your first program ever? I mean, beyond the hello world and exercises; the first one you came up with yourself?
For me it was a Scheme program that made given text (from file) all upper/lower case. It asked the user for case, then did the converting, but if the user provided anything else than ``up'' or ``down'' as the mode, the program displayed the header that said ``learn to type, faggot'', and then printed an endless sequence of ASCII penises. It was a nice easter egg. Lol, good old days.

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Please elaborate. They're just global state. There's a case to be made for lazy instantiation if the object may not be needed, but at it's heart the "singleton pattern" is just a fancy name Java developers use to pretend that they're not using global variables, no?