SVZ sum rules: 30+1 years later

For this exceptional 25th anniversary of the QCD-Montpellier series of conferences initiated in 85 with the name 'Non-perturbative methods', we take the opportunuity to celebrate the 30+1 years of the discovery of the SVZ (also called ITEP, QCD or QCD spectral) sum rules by M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein and V.I. Zakahrov in 79 [M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein and V.I. Zakharov, Nucl. Phys. B 147 (1979) 385, 448]. In this talk, I have the duty to present the status of the method. I shall (can) not enumerate the vast area of successful applications of sum rules in hadron physics but I shall focus on the historical evolution of field and its new developments.