Twenty years ago, mega celebrity couples roamed the earth: There was Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner (hot on the heels of his first breakup with J.Lo). Nick Lachey and Jessica “Is It Chicken Or Is It Fish?” Simpson.
But those are the ones everyone remembers. To really jog our memory, we thought we’d take a look back at celebrity couples we’d all almost forgotten were an item back in 2005.
Let the nostalgia (and feeling old) begin.
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Before he put on spandex and made it big as Captain America, Chris Evans dated Jessica Biel from 2001 to 2006. Here, the "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" co-stars attend a Halloween party at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles. So much for costumes!
Post-Britney and pre-Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake dated Cameron Diaz for about three years. The couple reportedly met at the 2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, where Timberlake was picking up the award for "Best Burp," an award presented by Diaz, who had won a few years before. How romantic!
Look away, Eva Mendes! Before Ryan Gosling married Mendes, he had girlfriend Rachel McAdams hopping into his arms at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards. The pair, who dated from 2005 until 2007, were accepting the reward for "Best Kiss" for their lip locking in "The Notebook."
Before she was hosting "Love Is Blind" (with now-husband Nick Lachey), Vanessa Minnillo was giving love a chance with Yankees great Derek Jeter. The pair were in an on-and-off relationship from 2003 until 2006.
From 2003 to 2005, Keira Knightley and future "50 Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan were arguably the hottest couple in the British Empire.
Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush got married in 2005, though you might have forgotten because it only lasted five months. Here, the "One Tree Hill" co-stars stop by MTV's "TRL" — another relic from a bygone time.
Kanye West's first high-profile romance was with fashion designer Alexis Pfeiffer. Here, the pair, who dated from 2002 to 2008, pose at an event with Kim Kardashian, Ye's future wife. Not awkward at all!
An all-time-great Messy Couple, Kate Moss and musician Pete Doherty started their two-year on-again, off-again relationship in 2005. Here they are at the Glastonbury Festival that same year.
Hilary Duff and Joel Madden of the band Good Charlotte dated from 2004 to 2006. The pair allegedly started dating when he was 25 and she was 16 which, uh, no comment.
Chris Pratt and Emily VanCamp, who played onscreen siblings on "Everwood," dated from 2004 to 2007. Here, the pair attend a Xbox 360 "Gears of War" party — a very early-aughts event.
Katie Holmes had quite a wild 2005: She began the year engaged to longtime boyfriend Chris Klein. By March, the pair had called off the engagement. A month later, she was spotted canoodling — a classic 2005 tabloid term — with A-lister Tom Cruise, whom she'd go on to marry and divorce.
A baby-faced Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett dated briefly in 2005 while making the neo-noir "The Black Dahlia."
She's happily married to New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson today, but in 2005, singer Ciara was dating rapper Bow Wow.
Mandy Moore and Zach Braff dated from 2004 to 2006 during a blonde moment for Moore.
Singer Josh Groban dated "Mad Men" actor January Jones from 2003 to 2006. Groban — like Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows before him and Pete Davidson today — is one of those secret I've-dated-everyone-Hollywood types: The crooner has also been linked to Katy Perry, Kat Dennings and Selma Blair.
On the heels of her divorce from Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston dated Vince Vaughn, her co-star in "The Breakup," for about a year. The pair — inelegantly called Vaughniston by the tabloids (yeah, that never got on the same way Brangelina did) — broke up IRL in 2006.
Jude Law and Sienna Miller were on-again, off-again from 2003 to 2011. The pair were very publicly off again in 2006, after Law allegedly had an affair with his children's nanny. (We forget now, but 2005 was smack-dab in the middle of the era when everyone was having an affair with the nanny.)
Renée Zellweger and country singer Kenny Chesney had a blink-and-you-miss-it marriage in 2005: The marriage lasted all of four months, with Zellweger filing for an annulment, mysteriously citing “fraud” as the reason for the split.
Orlando Bloom — looking very swashbuckle-y in his "Pirates of the Caribbean" era — dated Kate Bosworth from 2002 to 2005.
Nas and singer Kelis were married from 2005 to 2010. After their divorce, the Queens-born rapper posed with Kelis' wedding dress on the cover of his 2012 album “Life Is Good." (Because nothing screams "over it" like posing on an album cover with your ex's wedding dress.)