Nine of Diamonds

This is what you've waited for:
Technology that won the war!
Lost and found in time and space
Transmissions of a distant shore

And what was said and read once more
Orbits 'round the dishy core
The words of scientific grace
On research that had come before

"The time has come," the Walrus swore,
"To read what's written here before
As if 'twere 'pon a watch's face.
Heavens!  It's the-"