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Deployed

The National Weather Service’s Space Environment Center web page is being reformatted (none too attractively, in my opinion) and states that “the new page will be deployed November 13, 2006.”

In all of the years that I’ve surfed the web, I really do not recall anyone ever deploying a redesigned website. It seems like an odd use of the word, though technically correct, I suppose. Just kind of militaristic. Not that I’m surprised by that these days, but it still sounds odd to my ear. For a space related page, the word launched would have worked better for me.

Posted on 11/02/06 at 05:50 PM
 




cyn

kind of like when everyone was embedded, eh?

United States   Posted by cyn on 11/02/06  at  11:38 PM





Dave

Satellites are ‘deployed’, though… not launched… to the best of my knowledge, anyway.

United States   Posted by Dave on 11/03/06  at  08:30 AM





Kate

Yes, Cyn, kind of like that.

Dave, that would strike me as proper use of the word, too.  Rockets are launched, while satellites are put into position (with strategic precision). But I guess launch also has a first use connotation, too. Deploying web pages still sounds off to me.

United States   Posted by Kate on 11/03/06  at  02:56 PM





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