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Many things have been said about being a gen-z or a millennial. Really many. But now, increasingly more of them have become adults. They have realized – or are beginning to realize – that there has been a world before being a native digital. A totally different world, right behind the corner of their memory. And even if... ... (continue reading).

Instagram is full of profiles about the ‘80s and ‘90s, one thing is to watch pictures about, another is to act (maybe even unknowingly) like a gen-x.

And since I am encountering more and more frequently some gen-z or millennials with unequivocal gen-x attitudes, I decided to delve deeper and create this guide for those who are fed up with acting like millennials or gen-z. Or somehow just not everyone wants to fit in (or wants at least to take a break from it, or just explore a different world).

If you identify yourself with some (or even all) of these signs, then you were born to be a gen-x.

17) When you have a beautiful song in your mind, you turn on the radio, wait for the song, and get ready to press rec + play.

16) Instead of following on social media someone you like, you hand them through a friend a piece of paper, with the (handwritten) question: „Do you want to follow me?", and three options to cross: a) Yes. b) No. c) Maybe later.

15) While your friends are testing the latest virtual reality devices, you're standing there next to them, playing Duck Hunt with Nintendo's orange gun, as if it were the most normal thing to do right now.

14) While some of your friends perhaps suffer from anxiety because of social media, you suffer from anxiety too, but because you always have to remember to feed your Tamagotchi.

13) You wouldn't even be that surprised, should the next i-phone model have a fixed wire plugged into the wall of your house.

12) You are about to buy your first car, and the seller is explaining you in detail everything about the infotainment- system, apple carplay, etc., convinced that this is exactly what you want to hear about a car. But then you interrupt him completely disinterested, and instead ask him where in all this you can insert compact discs.

11) Instead of a smartwatch, you think that the coolest thing that someone could wear on the wrist is a Casio- watch with calculator (yes, the same like Marty McFly).

10) You talk with your friends about creatures from other planets, and while others mention Thanos, you come up with Alf.

9) You consider KITT still the coolest car ever, although most of its functions are now standard features in any compact car (apart from riding on two side wheels, jumping over obstacles and going through walls, things that might possibly require some additional regulation to the traffic code as we know it).

8) You watch the original series of Beverly Hills 90210, and you find the protagonists really cool, even if (or exactly because) nobody of them has ever used – or even imagined a smartphone or has any idea what a social media profile is.

7) When you are asked what will be the most important inventions in the next 30 years, and your friends give answers related to artificial intelligence and stuff like that, you answer that it will be the hoverboard from Back to the future 2.

6) You are 12 years old (and even worse if you are older), and you are seriously trying to impress a girl with the "Illuminator" function of your G-Shock.

5) If you are asked what your must- have science fiction tool is, if you could choose one to own in real life, you answer without hesitation: a flux capacitor for your car (even if you have just a Camry).

4) You consider that the most important feature that the next generation of smartphones should have are chameleon colors, like for the Nokia 6110 (...just google of bing it).

3) You have seen the movie „The Goonies", and now you are absolutely convinced that there must be a treasure map somewhere in the attic of your house, and by searching the basement of your (or a neighbor's) house, sooner or later you will come across a secret tunnel leading to a pirate ship with the treasure.

2) While your friends comment the latest episodes of Stranger Things and Wednesday, you start each time in extended debates about whether or not Jack could have been saved, if Rose had moved a bit on the door floating in the middle of the frozen ocean after the Titanic sank.

1) You are at high school, and your dream is to become part of a boy- or a girl group, because your idols are the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls.