Whoa crazy...

I've been reading about Georgism all day and this just tops all the weird shit I've been reading about so far. Apparently, the board game Monopoly was, in its original form, about educating peoples on the principles of Georgism. Crazy. First I read it here. Then checked on WikiPedia (here and here) and its references and yep, it's true:

In 1903, the Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate.

Crazy crazy world. What happened to Georgism? Wasn't it really really popular around the turn of the century?