To provide a display system and a display device capable of, even when no selected history is created, which is related to, for example, a first-time user or a user who uses a certain function for the first time, selecting and displaying any one item; an image forming apparatus having the device; a display method using the device; and a computer program for the device.

The display system stores a selected history of an item for each identification data of users, and, when receiving from a certain user an instruction to select and display one item, selects and displays the one item based on the selected history related to not only the certain user but all users.