If you do much work on remote servers and have ever lost your connection at an inconvenient moment, using screen can help avoid losing work. Screen is, according to the man page, "a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells)". Window manager may be a bit misleading, as it's not a window manager in the GUI sense, but rather it manages a number of full-screen console/shell sessions within a single console/shell.
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