Cannot download El Capitan

Hello!
I have a problem - El Capitan would not download on my MacBook Air 2008 I had a few weeks ago. When I try to get to the AppStore, it says "this version of Mac OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer."

I know that my Mac is a bit old, but it says on the Apple site that El Capitan is available for the MacBook Air late 2008
Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

P.S. Now my Mac works Lion 10.7.5, so it turns out it's latest OS it may work?

Thank you in advance!

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