diff --git a/src/terminal/Screen.zig b/src/terminal/Screen.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..21ac1659f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/terminal/Screen.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+const Screen = @This();
+
+const std = @import("std");
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+const color = @import("color.zig");
+
+/// A line is a set of cells.
+pub const Line = []Cell;
+
+/// Cell is a single cell within the screen.
+pub const Cell = struct {
+    /// Each cell contains exactly one character. The character is UTF-32
+    /// encoded (just the Unicode codepoint).
+    char: u32,
+
+    /// Foreground and background color. null means to use the default.
+    fg: ?color.RGB = null,
+    bg: ?color.RGB = null,
+
+    /// True if the cell should be skipped for drawing
+    pub fn empty(self: Cell) bool {
+        return self.char == 0;
+    }
+};
+
+pub const LineIterator = struct {
+    screen: *const Screen,
+    index: usize,
+
+    pub fn next(self: *LineIterator) ?Line {
+        if (self.index >= self.screen.lines) return null;
+
+        // Get the index of the first byte of the the line at index.
+        const idx = self.screen.lineIndex(self.index) * self.screen.cols;
+
+        // The storage is sliced to return exactly the number of columns.
+        const line = self.screen.storage[idx .. idx + self.screen.cols];
+
+        self.index += 1;
+        return line;
+    }
+};
+
+/// The full list of lines, including any scrollback.
+storage: []Cell,
+
+/// The first visible line.
+zero: usize,
+
+/// The number of lines and columns in the visible space.
+lines: usize,
+cols: usize,
+
+/// Initialize a new screen.
+pub fn init(alloc: Allocator, lines: usize, cols: usize) !Screen {
+    // Allocate enough storage to cover every line and column in the visible
+    // area. This wastes some up front memory but saves allocations later.
+    const buf = try alloc.alloc(Cell, lines * cols);
+    std.mem.set(Cell, buf, .{ .char = 0 });
+
+    return Screen{
+        .storage = buf,
+        .zero = 0,
+        .lines = lines,
+        .cols = cols,
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn deinit(self: *Screen, alloc: Allocator) void {
+    alloc.free(self.storage);
+    self.* = undefined;
+}
+
+/// Returns an iterator that can be used to iterate over all of the lines
+/// from index zero.
+pub fn lineIterator(self: *const Screen) LineIterator {
+    return .{ .screen = self, .index = 0 };
+}
+
+/// Returns the index for the given line (0-indexed) into the underlying
+/// storage array.
+pub fn lineIndex(self: Screen, line: usize) usize {
+    const idx = self.zero + line;
+    if (idx < self.storage.len) return idx;
+    return idx - self.storage.len;
+}
+
+/// Turns the screen into a string.
+fn testString(self: Screen, alloc: Allocator) ![]const u8 {
+    const buf = try alloc.alloc(u8, self.storage.len + self.lines);
+    var i: usize = 0;
+    var lines = self.lineIterator();
+    for (lines.next()) |line, y| {
+        if (y > 0) {
+            buf[i] = '\n';
+            i += 1;
+        }
+
+        for (line) |cell| {
+            // Turn NUL into space.
+            const char = if (cell.char == 0) 0x20 else cell.char;
+            i += try std.unicode.utf8Encode(@intCast(u21, char), buf[i..]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return buf[0..i];
+}
+
+test "Screen" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try init(alloc, 5, 10);
+    defer s.deinit(alloc);
+
+    var i: usize = 0;
+    var iter = s.lineIterator();
+    while (iter.next() != null) i += 1;
+
+    try testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 5), i);
+}
diff --git a/src/terminal/main.zig b/src/terminal/main.zig
index 00e214847..cf47c4fce 100644
--- a/src/terminal/main.zig
+++ b/src/terminal/main.zig
@@ -29,4 +29,7 @@ test {
     _ = @import("osc.zig");
     _ = @import("parse_table.zig");
     _ = @import("Tabstops.zig");
+
+    // TODO
+    _ = @import("Screen.zig");
 }