Certainly the word technology leads to confusion. In this modern era movies as Star wars, blade runner, the matrix represent an utopian meaning of this word. The example of a pen is good to produce cognitive dissonance about it. 

I want to write about a technology that we use every day to get information or transmit our internal states. This technology is so natural to us that are hard to notice how complex it is. I refer to: written words. The reason to choose this technology is simply: without this “simple” technology the entire philosophical tradition didn’t actually exist (an this is "why" i like it). 

When ancient Greeks begins to use written words and written medias to accumulate information and organize theirs poleis, this were a detriment to their oral culture. It had a deep impact to the greek conscious structure. With no necessity of use their faculties of memory on retain lots of oral information (now keeping it on papyruses) the greeks had their minds “free to think” about metaphysics, ontology and the meaning of life. All the rest is philosophy.

Now “how I got it”, “how long I have used it”, and “how often…” is easy and obvious to answer. I learn words through all my educative years. I have used it since I can remember and every day like everyone else.