I just want to know when the word was first used and was it common back then. I also was wondering how the sign came about.
Thnx in advance
Whatever you do, don’t listen to any myths about it being “Fornicate Under Control of the King”.
(fk) Also 6 fuk, 7- fk, etc. [Early mod.E fuck, fuk, answering to a ME. type *fuken (wk. vb.) not found; ulterior etym. unknown. Synonymous G. ficken cannot be shown to be related.]
For centuries, and still by the great majority, regarded as a taboo-word; until recent times not often recorded in print but frequent in coarse speech.
1. intr. To copulate. trans. (Rarely used with female subject.) To copulate with; to have sexual connection with.
a1503 DUNBAR Poems lxxv. 13 Be his feiris he wald haue fukkit. 1535 LYNDESAY Satyre 1363 Bischops…may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit. 1535-36 Answer to Kingis Flyting 49 Ay fukkand lyke ane furious Fornicatour. 1598 FLORIO Worlde of Wordes 137/1 Fottere, to iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy. c1650 in Hales & Furnivall Percy’s Folio MS. (1867) 90 Which made him to haue a mighty mind To clipp, kisse, & to ffuck. 1680 ROCHESTER Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 14 Much Wine had past with grave discourse, Of who Fucks who, and who does worse. c1684 Sodom II. 30 Hee Fucks to please his will, but I for need. 1707 ‘MADAM B[RAN]LE’ Fifteen Plagues of Maidenhead 4 But I poor Virgin never shall be F. a1750 A. ROBERTSON Poems (1750) 256 But she gave proof that she could fk. c1800 BURNS Merry Muses (1911) 71 You can fk where’er you please. c1863 PHILO CUNNUS Festival of Passions II. 54 That female nation who being encamped near their enemies were fucked, during a truce, by the hostile party. 1869 ROSSETTI Let. 15 Sept. (1965) II. 743 If Byron fd his sister he fd her and there an end. c1888-94 My Secret Life IV. 64 Then a dread came over me. I had fucked a common street nymph. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 765 His wife is fucked yes and damn well fucked too. 1928 D. H. LAWRENCE Lady Chatterley iv. 44 Fellows with swaying waists fucking little jazz girls. 1967 D. WRIGHT tr. R. Queneau’s Between Blue & Blue v. 48 ‘Well, Lamélie,’ says Cidrolin, ‘while you’re waiting to get married, do you want to be entertained or educated?’ ‘No, Dad, what I want to do is to fuck.’ 1971 Ink 19 Oct. 15/3, I don’t want to fuck anyone, and I don’t want to be fucked either.
2. Used profanely in imprecations and exclamations as the coarsest equivalent of DAMN v. 5.
1922 JOYCE Ulysses 587 God fuck old Bennett! 1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune II. xv. 379 ‘Fuck the bloody thing!’ he said fiercely under his breath. 1955 S. BECKETT Molloy 69 Fuck the son of a bitch. 1959 F. KING So Hurt & Humiliated 151 ‘Suppose any of the neighbours were to look out and see them.’ ‘Oh, f the neighbours!’ ‘Really, Henry!’ 1969 ‘J. MORRIS’ Fever Grass ii. 24 Why don’t you…tell whoever it is to go fuck themselves?
3. Const. with various adverbs: fuck about, to fool about, mess about; fuck off, to go away, make off; fuck up: (a) trans., to ruin, spoil, mess up; (b) intr., to blunder, to make a (serious) error; to fail; cf. SCREW v. 12c.
1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 31 They kept ‘em fuckin’ about the camp, while they sent us over the bloody top. Ibid. iii. 37 As soon as a bit o’ shrapnel comes their way, [they] fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet. 1944 Amer. Speech XIX. 108 Go on, now, fuck off! 1958 S. BECKETT Malone Dies 116 She wants to know if you’re the one in charge. Fuck off, said Lemuel. 1967 R. SHAW Man in Glass Booth (1969) xvii. 114 ‘Can’t be too specific,’ answered the old man. ‘Don’t want to fuck up my case.’ 1968 J. UPDIKE Couples iv. 294 This fucks up our party, doesn’t it? 1969 It 11-24 Apr. 12/3 The…neatly planned plot to fuck up their transport scene. 1971 E. E. LANDY Underground Dict. 84 Fuck up, v. 1. Make a gross error… 2. Fall completely under the influence of a drug or alcohol. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 13/2 We fucked up in New York. 1980 Maledicta Summer 85 The RSV translates ‘They were well-fed lusty stallions’ but the King James [Bible] totally fucked up here and confused Hebrew makm ‘well-balled’ (where the -m is the marker of the plural) with Hebrew makm ‘rising early in the morning’ (where the -m is part of the root).
Hence fucking vbl. n. Also as ppl. a. and adv., used esp. as a mere intensive.
a1568 A. SCOTT Poems iv. 55 Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame to fucking. 1680 ROCHESTER Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 30 Through all the Town, the common Fucking Post, On whom each Whore, relieves her tingling Cunt. 1707 [see FRIGGING vbl. n.]. c1888-94 My Secret Life III. 228 This house had but eight rooms, and two mere closets to let out for fucking. Ibid. VIII. 307 She was…a magnificent bit of fucking flesh, but nothing more. 1893 FARMER & HENLEY Slang III. 80/2 Fucking…Adj., A qualification of extreme contumely. Adv. Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form of bloody. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 580 I’ll wring the neck of any bugger says a word against my fucking king. 1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 23 Blown to fuckin’ bits as soon as we got out of the trench, poor bugger. 1930 J. DOS PASSOS 42nd Parallel 94 It was a fucking shame it was Freddy hit you. 1938 DYLAN THOMAS Let. 31 Aug. (1966) 208 None using obscene words, none…to do with fucking. 1939 Let. 29 Sept. (1966) 240 I’ll give Dent the whole fucking works. 1960 D. LESSING In Pursuit of English 12 ‘What the f–ing hell’s that for?’ my father said. 1969 AUDEN City without Walls 49 I’m so bored with the whole fucking crowd of you I could scream! 1971 It 2-16 June 18/3 The Youngbloods…are so fucking good they can do spontaneous albums.
http://www.wordorigins.org handles this at http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorf.htm
Master Cecil tackles this:
What’s the origin of the “F” word?.
Right, everyone knows it comes from “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.”
(Why yes, I did learn most of what I know about history from Van Halen albums. Why do you ask?)
WelcomeSmoker. It took me five times reading your original post OP to discover what you really asked.
You want to know when and how the expression fuck you came about. You also wish to know how the origin of the middle finger indicating “fuck you” came about.
If I am right, blink twice. 
Fuck you, used as an interjection, first appears around 1900. Was it common. Not likely unless you were in a den of thieves or “the underworld.”
The origin of the finger sign can be found by reading Cecil “fingers” it out
Please try to write your questions a little more clearly. For instance, talking about “the sign.” How is one to know that you were talking about the “middle finger?”
Just wanted to mention that I know the guy who discovered this quotation. He was one of my undergrad profs.