Reality Television Located Steve Jobs' Lost 1983 Lisa Mouse

In case you didn't know Apple was a big deal, search the number of Apple-dedicated websites on the internet: Macgasm, Apple Insider, Mac Rumors, Cult of Mac, etc. So excavators from the National Geographic Channel show "Diggers" only partially had to fake their excitement while pulling out a Lisa mouse used and then encapsulated by Steve Jobs in 1983, CNET reported.

"We got the mouse!" proclaimed one of the "Diggers" hosts, whose find will be broadcasted to the world on Feb. 25 when the episode airs on Nat Geo. Actually, they made the dig last year, but it's only becoming newsworthy now in proximity to the upcoming episode.

"Goosebumps!" yelled another.

Jobs used the mouse at the Aspen International Design Conference in 1983; afterwards he bagged it and donated it to a time capsule the size of a Great White Shark's core or the supposed nuclear weapon Joe Dirt once strapped to his back (which turned out to be "an old crapper tank") that included "hundreds of other items," according to CNET. Jobs' mouse was the most famous. It was supposed to have been dug out in 2000.

But a major landscaping project in the area scrambled the storage tank's (diggers used a metal-cutting saw to open it) location. It took the boom of reality television, in the form of "Diggers," to find it and spend the several hours digging it up.

"We just freaked out," George Wyant, one of the two "Diggers" co-hosts, told CNET. "We went crazy. Because I'd had a pit in my stomach all day, so it was like instant relief."

No word yet on what the mouse is worth. Perhaps History Channel's "American Pickers" could make an appearance on "Diggers" -- and an offer. Then, maybe "American Restoration" would buy it, and restore it for a client looking for a mouse with that "retro look."

Before "Diggers" opened it, however, they probably should have offered it to A&E's "Storage Wars." Depending on the value of the mouse, they likely wouldn't have gotten their money's worth. Other stored items noted by CNET included a six-pack of Ballantines beer, a Moody Blues tape, and a Rubik's Cube.