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> [What happened to the Cybermen in our universe?](http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3819/what-happened-to-the-cybermen-in-our-universe)  

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Like many people, I never had a chance to watch the original _Doctor Who_ and got started with the new series and I've been catching up along the way.  I always knew a little about the series, but just never had a chance to watch it.  So I had heard of Daleks and Cybermen, and knew that the Cybermen that Lumic created were not the original Cybermen.  I remember the Doctor saying, "It's happening again," when he sees Lumic's Cybermen.

What happened to the original Cybermen from the original series?  Were they finally destroyed?