What is the author's style in Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?

Coupland uses period high-tech slang that tends to invent words and brings new meanings to old words. Those readers who worked in the computer field during the time will recognize the slang, while younger readers will likely need to research some of the more esoteric usages. For example, the technology for connecting to the Internet at the time was the telephony modem. Today Internet connection technologies are faster, and the telephony technology is called DSL. The World Wide Web had only been released. Nobody but insiders knew about the network GUI technology in the 1993-94 time frame.