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It might also be because all the previous MOTs were done at a non-electronic testing center (old-style A5-sized certificates instead of the new green and white A4 ones).
They changed from paper to electronic good afew years back..?
I'm pretty sure I still had old-format paper MOTs as recently as a couple of years ago, which won't have been registered online. It all depends on where you get it done.