I'm so glad that these screenshots have survived and (sort of) been released. I wish the content weren't blurred though -- I'm pretty sure it wasn't super-personal or anything -- I was usually careful to avoid that. It would also be nice to have the actual screenshots instead of photos of screenshots. - Paul Buchheit

We should ask Keith if we can get real screenshots since they've made them available for photographing anyhow. - Kevin Fox

I'd love to see the pre-release logos TechCrunch blurred out. Would that violate some policy? - Voyagerfan5761

crossing fingers that the real screenshots make their way onto FF - Adam Kazwell

I love how they started off looking like other web-based mail readers and then quickly moved to the trademark UI. Very, very neat. - jakebf

This is great! All of those interface changes were crazy! - Brandon Titus

The logos were just random placeholders (such as the trout, which wasn't blurred out for some reason). They really weren't particularly interesting or meaningful. - Paul Buchheit

I think Gmail has always been missing something since it eliminated the trout... - Chris Reed

There are great, especially given what Kevin said in Philipp's recent interview about not being able to discuss what Gmail looked like before release. Now, the trout... does that have any relation to TroutBoard.com? ;-) - Tony Ruscoe via fftogo

Yes, I was inspired by the "Trout Farm" in eXistenZ - Paul Buchheit

i like some of these layouts better than the current one :) - Tim Hoeck

Trout, fail whales, something's fishy. - Alex Haar

lol@Alex :D - Voyagerfan5761

very cool - john conroy

Paul -- another Cronenberg fan! Glad to know there are a few of us oddballs out there. - Phil Glockner

I'm being honest when I say "inspiring"... I've built some homemade Intranet stuff at work and I love to see the evolution of the design. I want to go back and redesign everything now! Fantastic stuff. - Vince DeGeorge