Fanning put the program up on download.com and it became one of the most popular programs on the site. Users liked it because it combined an mp3 specific search engine, with file sharing between users, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to chat with other files sharers. (Tyson, ND) “Napster was a different way to distribute MP3 files. Instead of storing the songs on a central computer, the songs live on users' machines. This is called peer-to-peer sharing, or P2P. When you want to download a song using Napster, you are downloading it from another person's machine.” (Tyson, ND)