High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the invention of the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to AOL in May 1999. Afterwards, Tom worked inside of AOL as the manager of SHOUTcast, a leading internet streaming audio service, and wrote the software along with Stephen `Tag Loomis and Justin Frankel, before leaving in October, 2004. Tom then worked on development at RAZZ, Inc.. He continues to collaborate with Frankel on independent projects like Ninjam.