We recently started Artemis Fowl for story time with the kids and they're enjoying it a lot, but I noticed something funny about how the book is written that was also true of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.
I just looked them up, and both date from the early 2000s - so the same era.
For both of these, the authors had a weird obsession with late 90s/early-00s tech. They don't use "a computer", they use a Macintosh specifically, for example. The tech stuff is over-specified.
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