Srdjanpav/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Somewhere in the multiverse, there's an alternate timeline where bulky 80's and late 90's computers never quite evolved into what we have today. Instead of going slimmer, powerful, and more portable, they stayed practical and somewhat unruly. Think retro-futuristic portable computers like you'd see in dystopian cyberpunk games and fiction. That's pretty much the design concept behind cyberdecks, custom personal computers that offer their best impression of a bygone era. Fantastical storytelling aside, some resourceful tinkerers are making cyberdecks of their own using modern components, resulting in examples like the Hackberry Pi or the πTar, with the latter being a dope keytar-styled cyberdeck. The phrase "cyberdeck" was born in a novel by William Gibson called "Neuromancer." Real-world cyberdecks are nothing more than custom-assembled computers often employing a single-board setup like a Raspberry Pi.…