The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "'I think there is a world market for about five computers' —Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines), 1943".
インターネット上で初めてこの言葉の引用が見られるのは1986年のネットニュースでのことで、発信元はコンベックス・コンピュータであり、"'I think there is a world market for about five computers' —Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines), 1943" と記されていた。