America Online Co-Founder James Kimsey Dies at 76

Washington Post: James V. Kimsey, a flinty former Army Ranger and Washington businessman who teamed with a young marketing expert named Steve Case to start America Online, the early dial-up service that put millions of people on the Internet and informed them, “You’ve got mail,” died March 1 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 76. If not as widely known as Case, Kimsey played a pivotal role in making AOL one of the Washington region’s great wealth creators.