Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic and WordPress.com, gives an annual “State of the Word” presentation at many WordCamps as he travels the world. He won’t be speaking at this WordCamp PDX, though he has at many in the past.

To help you catch up with the history of WordPress, founded in 2003, we’ve put together a timeline of videos of Matt’s annual State of the Word talks. Unfortunately, we are still looking for videos from 2007 and 2008.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2007

The WordCamp San Francisco 2007 State of the Word is on Viddler and in an old Flash version. Until a more secure version of the original video is found, here is the WordCamp Argentina 2007 keynote by Matt Mullenweg featuring slides from the San Francisco State of the Word.

For more information, see WordCamp Argentina 2007.

State of the Word 2008

The video for Matt’s State of the Word 2008 appears to be missing from Vimeo and WordPress.tv.

Voce Communications did a great outline on the State of the Word 2008 presentation. There is an excerpt of the State of the Word 2008 from Matt’s keynote at WordCamp South Africa 2008. TechCrunch also offered a review of the WordPress State of the Word numbers.

We also recommend the two part interview with Matt by Robert Scoble on the future of WordPress with Fast Company (part one and part two), and the interview video.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2009

For more information, see the original WordPress.tv post.

State of the Word, WordCamp Hong Kong 2009

For more information, see the WordPress.tv video.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2010

For more information, see the WordPress.tv post.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2011

See the WordPress.tv video, his bullet points list, and Q&A after the presentation for more information.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2012

For more information, see the WordPress.tv video and slides.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2013

For more information, see the WordPress.tv video and 2013 State of the Word Q&A after the presentation.

State of the Word, WordCamp San Francisco 2014

See the full presentation on WP.TV, State of the Word 2014 bullet points in a post, slides, and video of the questions and answers after the presentation.

State of the Word 2015

There hasn’t been an official State of the Word 2015 video released yet, but these sum up much of the information on the state of WordPress this year.

See Matt Mullenweg: Town Hall Q&A at WordCamp Scranton, Pensylvannia and Matt Mullenweg: Keynote Q&A at WordCamp Europe 2015, and the summary from WPTavern.

Watching these videos is a time travel adventure of WordPress design, development, and growth, from a humble question and challenge to create a better blogging platform in 2003, to the web publishing platform that hosts 25% of the world’s websites. Where will the next decade take WordPress?